GAO: Small businesses working with DoD need cybersecurity guidance
From: FierceGovernmentIT
By Dibya Sarkar
The Defense Department office that oversees small business defense contractors should provide cybersecurity resources to help them protect their networks, but other priorities are delaying DoD’s efforts, congressional investigators said in Sept. 24 report.
While the Office of Small Business Programs, or OSBP, within the Defense Department isn’t required to educate small businesses on cybersecurity, the Government Accountability Office said in its report (pdf) that officials there recognize that cybersecurity is “an important and timely issue.”
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