The Defense Department, General Services Administration and NASA are proposing a change to the Federal Acquisition Regulation that would require contractors to secure computer systems that contain government information.
If approved, the change would extend the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, or FISMA, to “contractor information systems that contain or process information provided by or generated for the Government,” according to an Aug. 24 notice posted in the Federal Register.
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