The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is launching a national education campaign to help small businesses strengthen their cyber defenses and protect sensitive data that they store.
The FTC will develop and distribute reader-friendly educational materials with information about cybersecurity that small businesses need. The effort grew out of the Small Business & Cybersecurity Roundtables that the FTC hosted last year with small business owners and non-profit organizations, employees, and managers to learn about the challenges they face when dealing with cyber threats and security and ideas for how the government can help them.
“Small businesses understand the importance of