https://www.cyberscoop.com/cyber-readiness-institute-supply-chain-cybersecurity-guide/
By Jeff Stone
CYBERSCOOP
DEC 17, 2018
Help is on the way for leaders at small and medium-sized businesses that
have had to contend with cyberthreats that would be a challenge even for
massive firms with multimillion-dollar security budgets.
A program led by alumni of President Barack Obama's cybersecurity
commission was unveiled Monday, offering free tools and resources meant to
help smaller companies better secure their corporate networks. The Cyber
Readiness Institute was launched in July 2017 by the Center for Global
Enterprise -- an institution devoted to researching management practices,
-- to help small and medium-sized enterprises mitigate cyber risk. The
Cyber Readiness Program, which launched Monday, includes support from
private sector heavyweights like Mastercard, Microsoft, ExxonMobil and
General Motors.
The plan is for Fortune 500 companies to pass down cybersecurity know-how
to companies with only a fraction of the resources, a method that
ultimately aims to stop hackers before they can use one company as a
foothold to its partners.
"Small businesses very often are the source of data breaches into large
companies because of the supply chain effect," Mastercard CEO Ajay Banga
said at a press conference in Washington on Monday. "What's coming at them
is a cyberthreat that doesn't distinguish between large and small. ...
This is not a problem for small businesses. It's a problem for all of us,
collectively."
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