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January 29, 2020 By cs

DoD aims to issue proposed rule for certifying contractors’ cybersecurity in the fall

A sweeping plan to conduct independent third-party cybersecurity audits of prospective Defense Department contractors’ management of sensitive information will be subject to a formal rulemaking process, but the department and the nonprofit organization being established to train and approve certifiers are still moving at a quick clip. 

“Because we’re doing rulemaking, this isn’t going to roll out as hard and fast as we thought,” said a government official delivering a briefing on Defense’s Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program at a recent meeting of the Software Supply Chain Assurance forum.

Quarterly meetings of the forum — co-led by Defense, the General Services Administration, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and Homeland Security Department—are attended by public and private sector representatives and conducted under the Chatham House Rule to encourage a free exchange of ideas.

The official said Defense expects the CMMC requirements to be issued as a proposed rule this fall, but regardless of the related public comment process, officials still plan to include the rules in requests for proposals starting in the third quarter.

“In June, we’re going to give you an [request for information] that says these procurements are targeted to have CMMC requirements,” the official also noted.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2020/01/dod-aims-issue-proposed-rule-certifying-contractors-cybersecurity-fall/162463/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: CMMC, cyber, cybersecurity, Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, cybersecurity standards, DHS, DoD, GSA, Homeland Security, NIST, rulemaking, supply chain, supply chain security

November 29, 2019 By cs

Supply chain security requires acquisition reform, security experts say

To secure the government’s IT ecosystem, agencies must better understand their tech, the vendors who built it, and those companies’ suppliers.

The government can make significant progress in securing its IT supply chain by following a few basic procurement practices, but most agencies have yet to adopt them, according to federal security experts.

While government leaders have recently given a lot of attention to the supply chain security threats posed by foreign vendors, officials must devote equal energy to reforming their acquisition policies so they put those warnings to good use, experts said. Those efforts require an in-depth understanding of both the government’s IT infrastructure and the countless firms in its vendor pool, they said, but today that remains a challenge for most agencies.

“Supply chain [security] is where we were with cyber[security] maybe 15, 20 years ago,” Michele Iversen, director of risk assessment and operational integration at the Defense Department, said during a panel at the recent Fifth Domain’s CyberCon event. “We really don’t really have the visibility that we need to know where the threats are and what’s actually happening.”

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2019/11/supply-chain-security-requires-acquisition-reform-security-experts-say/161251/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition reform, NIST, procurement reform, risk, risk management, security, supply chain, supply chain management, supply chain security

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