Cyber Readiness Institute wants to help small firms fix their authentication issues
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 […]
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