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Small businesses often rely on Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to handle their IT needs including cybersecurity. However, ransomware targets companies of all sizes, and small businesses are especially vulnerable to supply chain attacks. In this July Newsletter of Cyber Security Summit | Minneapolis, MN Scott Singer, President of CyberNINES, shares a few basic strategies for small businesses to protect themselves from ransomware supply chain attacks.

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Scott Singer, President of CyberNINES, was quoted by a reporter from Bloomberg about the Department of Defense’s (DoD) new cybersecurity requirement and its impact on the small and medium-sized businesses. Singer recently testified before the House Small Business Committee on recommendations for making the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) compliance attainable for DoD’s small business suppliers, expressed his concerns about the insufficient number of approved Certified 3rd Party Assessment Organizations (C3PAOs) to satisfy the need to certify the defense contractors by the 2025 deadline. There is a need for roughly 8,000 C3PAOs to certify 300,000 companies in the Defense Industrial Base (DIB).

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It is not just large companies that become victims of cyberattacks, but small and medium-sized manufacturers and businesses who are often unprepared for the common types of attack. 43% of cyberattacks are targeted against small businesses.   

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