Cybersecurity Should be Important to All Businesses

January 26, 2017

SBA To Provide Strategy For Small Businesses To Improve Cybersecurity

Source: SmallGovCon, Matthew Moriarty, January 20, 2017

By the middle of this year, the U.S. Small Business Administration should have a strategy in place to assist small businesses with cybersecurity.

The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act is chock full of interesting legal changes for government contractors, and although we have chronicled it in depth, that does not mean there is not necessarily more to be mined from the whopping 1,587-page legislation.

Buried in section 1841, the 2017 NDAA contains an interesting directive for the new head of the SBA–who, pending Senate confirmation, will be former CEO of the professional wrestling franchise WWE, Linda McMahon. Section 1841 instructs the SBA head to work with the Department of Homeland Security to develop a cybersecurity strategy for small businesses.

Cybersecurity–especially the lack of it–has been in the news quite a bit lately. But cybersecurity is not only a concern for government agencies and massive global conglomerates. Cybersecurity should be a concern for all businesses, no matter how small. Indeed, the hack that led to the release of millions of personal information belonging to government workers has reportedly been linked to a government contractor. And, although popular culture depicts hackers cracking the firewall and breaking the encrypted code, the truth is that many hackers are mostly adept at taking advantage of carelessness and human error. READ MORE….

Cybersecurity is just as important for small businesses as well as government agencies  and global conglomerates.  Contact your nearest PTAC to learn about government contracting and information security.

 

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