From: FederalNewsRadio.com 1500AM
By Jared Serbu
It’s now been almost two years since the Defense Department issued a final rule requiring contractors to inform the government when their systems have been involved in cybersecurity breaches and that government technical data has been stolen. But as can sometimes happen in a vast bureaucracy, the rule has been slow to take hold.
That’s according to some new metrics the Office of the Secretary of Defense released last week, which don’t even try to measure whether contractors are reporting security breaches: they merely ask whether the military services and agencies have updated their contract language to require companies to abide by the new rule. After two years of preparation, almost a quarter of the contracts that should include the new language still don’t.
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