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May 22, 2020 By cs

Coronavirus constraints pose CMMC rule change delays

Social distancing requirements are complicating the Defense Department’s implementation of its unified cybersecurity standard.

Katie Arrington, DoD’s chief information security officer for acquisition, said that while the coronavirus pandemic hasn’t affected training preparations, social distancing efforts have delayed the public hearing needed for the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) rule change needed to enforce new cybersecurity standards for contractors.

“The premise of doing all of this is that we’re going through a DFARS rule change,” which requires a public hearing, Arrington said May 8 during a Billington Cybersecurity event on the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program.

Keep reading this article at: https://defensesystems.com/articles/2020/05/13/cmmc-covid-dfar-rule-change-delay.aspx

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