http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2015/09/pentagon-small-biz-office-didnt-know-about-contractor-cyber-training/122036/
By Aliya Sternstein
NextGov.com
September 25, 2015
Hackers pummel small companies because they are easy targets, with poor
security hygiene and network access to big business partners, say security
specialists. That logic applies to small military contractors, too.
But the Pentagon’s Office of Small Business Programs has resources to help
protect the little defense businesses – it just didn’t know it. That was
the finding of a Government Accountability Office audit released Thursday.
The office "had not identified or disseminated cybersecurity resources to
defense small businesses that the businesses could use to understand
cybersecurity and cyberthreats," Joseph Kirschbaum, GAO director for
defense capabilities and management, said in the report. Office employees
"were not aware of existing cybersecurity resources such as those we
identified when we met with them in June 2015."
Even as the Pentagon was imposing data breach regulations on the $55.5
billion sector, the office essentially had other priorities than
advocating information security awareness.
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