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

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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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Second act for cybersecurity commissioners: Pritzker, Palmisano, Nadella form nonprofit

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Some members and staff of President Obama’s Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity are seeking to advance the commission’s goals through a nonprofit that will provide cyber risk-management best practices for small and medium-sized businesses, according to an announcement Wednesday. The Cyber Readiness Institute was launched to help the private sector “better address cybersecurity risk management across value chains, with a particular emphasis on support for small and medium-sized enterprises,” according to the announcement. The four co-chairs of the institute are former IBM CEO and commission Deputy Chairman Sam Palmisano; commission member and MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga; Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, who took over from commission member and Microsoft Vice President Peter Lee; and Penny Pritzker, who as Obama’s secretary of Commerce stood the commission up. It will be run by commission Executive Director Kiersten Todt. “The commission was the launching pad and the foundation stone” for the institute, she told CyberScoop. She said she’d […]

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Cyber EO out in a week or so, says exec briefed by White House

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The White House is putting the finishing touches on a new draft of the cybersecurity executive order originally scheduled for signature in January, and it could be done in a week or so, former IBM CEO Sam Palmisano said Monday. “My sense is that they’re moving along and maybe within a week or so we could […]

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