Small businesses facing a daunting cyber challenge

Recognizing the daunting cyber-security tasks faced by the nation’s small business owners, the U.S. House Select Committee for Small Businesses advanced the Improving Small Business Cyber Security Act of 2016, just before October, which the Department of Homeland Security designated National Cyber Security Awareness Month.

“American small businesses are under cyberattack like never before,” said House Small Business Committee Chairman Steve Chabot, R-Ohio. “Small businesses employ about half of the private sector workforce and generate 54 percent of annual sales in our economy.”

Smaller businesses are actually targeted as much as large companies, and the results…