Small companies are struggling to meet thePentagon’s newish network security rules, and even larger contractors aren’t doing as well as they think they are, a recent department study has found.
“For the most part, the big companies do very well,” Kevin Fahey, assistant defense secretary for acquisition, told reporters at the Pentagon on Monday. “But in no case do they meet everything that they thought they met.”
For one thing, big companies tend to give their smaller subcontractors a lot of data they don’t need, which then becomes vulnerable to foreign hackers.
