{"id":11752,"date":"2022-02-01T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-01T21:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/?post_type=press-releases&#038;p=11752"},"modified":"2022-02-02T16:40:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T21:40:26","slug":"sen-ossoff-working-to-protect-georgias-small-businesses-from-cyber-threats","status":"publish","type":"press-releases","link":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/press-releases\/sen-ossoff-working-to-protect-georgias-small-businesses-from-cyber-threats\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Ossoff Working to Protect Georgia&#8217;s Small Businesses from Cyber Threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013\u2013 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to help protect Georgia small businesses from cyber threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.georgia.org\/cybersecurityedge\">Georgia Department of Economic Development<\/a>, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses but less than 14% are prepared to defend themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is working to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;<em>Improving Cybersecurity of Small Organizations Act<\/em>&nbsp;to help small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and local governments defend themselves from cyber threats.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis legislation will help protect Georgia small businesses from cyberattacks, ransomware, and hackers,\u201d&nbsp;<strong>Sen. Ossoff said.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sen. Ossoff is also working to pass the&nbsp;<em>Cybersecurity Opportunity Act<\/em>&nbsp;to expand cybersecurity education programs at Historically Black Colleges and Universities and boost job opportunities in the cybersecurity field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/117\/bills\/s2483\/BILLS-117s2483is.pdf\">Click here<\/a>&nbsp;to read the&nbsp;<em>Improving Cybersecurity of Small Organizations Act<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"># # #<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, D.C.&nbsp;\u2013\u2013 U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is working across the aisle to help protect Georgia small businesses from cyber threats. According to the&nbsp;Georgia Department of Economic Development, 43% of cyberattacks are aimed at small businesses but less than 14% are prepared to defend themselves. Sen. Ossoff is working to pass the bipartisan&nbsp;Improving Cybersecurity of Small [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11752","press-releases","type-press-releases","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/11752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/press-releases"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/11752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11754,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/press_releases\/11752\/revisions\/11754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ossoff.senate.gov\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}