Small and mid-size businesses might not be able to afford participating in voluntary programs to share cyberthreat information, as President Obama has proposed. Smaller companies would lack the funds to participate in new information-sharing efforts, industry representatives told Congress at a March 4 hearing. The hearing was convened to seek businesses’ perspectives on Obama’s cybersecurity information sharing plan, which calls for is the creation of information sharing and analysis organizations, or ISAOs. Other costs of the Obama plan could prove unaffordable for smaller businesses, too.”]
Source: https://www.databreachtoday.com/could-costs-impede-info-sharing-plan-a-7981/op-1