Whether you are an active small business federal contractor, or an entrepreneur still getting your business off the ground, you are going to need a cybersecurity plan. Many DoD contractors, in particular, face a pending deadline to comply with NIST 800-171, as mandated by DFARS 252.204-7012.
The Kansas SBDC Cybersecurity Center for Small Business wants to help.
By the middle of this year, the U.S. Small Business Administration should have a strategy in place to assist small businesses with cybersecurity.
The 2017 National Defense Authorization Act is chock full of interesting legal changes for government contractors, and although we have chronicled it in depth, that does not mean there is not necessarily more to be mined from the whopping 1,587-page legislation.