From: Compliance Week
he Obama Administration is considering new cyber-security guidance that, together with new rules from other federal agencies, effectively would impose stringent new cyber-security requirements and reporting obligations on government contractors and sub-contractors.
In early August the Office of Management and Budget released draft guidance intended to improve cyber-security protections in federal acquisitions, which effectively would impose new security controls and reporting obligations on federal contractors. OMB’s guidance would apply to federal acquisition of products or services that “generate, collect, maintain, disseminate, store, or provides access to” controlled unclassified information (CUI) on behalf of the government, OMB said.
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