중소기업 정보보호 지원 관련 법제 현황 및 개선방향

The overall business innovation through digitalization is crucial for small and medium-sized enterprises(SMEs) to lead the innovative growth. The digitalization helps business practices of SMEs to advance from a subcontracting manufacturing system in the industrial age to a customized service provider in the digital era. For SMEs, it is hard to obtain all capabilities and business resources on their own which the 4th industrial revolution require such as cutting-edge technology, logistics, technique and capital, accordingly sharing and combination is the key for achieving the competitiveness. And the growing interdependence with the outside entities in providing product, services and information data bears a higher probability of a rapid and wide spread of specific company’s hazard or accident through supply chain or network. Digital Transformation unfolds at rapid pace. In this situation, SMEs with business resources limit coupled with the information protection divide between the big businesses need the foundation for strengthening the information protection capability and the proactive response form the government. Under existing legislation which lacks clear basis for SMEs support, organized cyber safety net boosting project support has limit. Therefore laying the legal grounds for effective information protection is necessary. To this end, this article is for reviewing the discussion on current status and improvement of SMEs information protection support legislation.