Podcast - Cybersecurity Roundup: Analyzing New and Proposed Rules for Contractors
Cybersecurity Insights: Updates on CMMC Implementation and CUI Identification
Podcast - Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
Third-Party Assessments and NIST SP 800-171
[Podcast] AI Risk Management: A Discussion with NIST’s Elham Tabassi on the NIST AI Risk Management Framework
Compliance into the Weeds - ChatGPT for the Compliance Professional
Nota Bene Episode 150: Building an AI Risk Management Framework with Siraj Husain
DoD Cyber: A Conversation with Melissa Vice, COO for DoD’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program
Cybersecurity and Data Privacy Year in Review: Major Breaches, Changes in the Law, and Upcoming Trends
The Government Contracts Cyber Café: Recent Developments Update
How to Respond to President Obama's Cybersecurity Executive Order
The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has long questioned whether contractors and their supply chains have been fully compliant with existing cybersecurity requirements aimed at protecting Controlled Unclassified Information...more
The Georgia Tech case serves as yet another reminder of the importance of contractor compliance with cybersecurity requirements in federal contracts. The Government alleges that Georgia Tech failed to comply with the...more
On Thursday, August 22, 2024, the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) filed a Complaint-In-Intervention in the case of United States of America ex rel. Christopher Craig and Kyle Koza, v. Georgia Tech Research Corp....more
Late last week, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its complaint-in-intervention in a qui tam lawsuit against the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech), alleging that the university failed to meet certain...more
On May 2, 2024, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued a class deviation to DFARS 252.204-7012, Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting. The deviation relates to contractors’ compliance with...more
Over the holidays, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) issued proposed rules for updating its Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program from its existing Defense Acquisition Regulatory Supplement (DFARS)...more
Two years after announcing the second iteration of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) program, the DoD released its proposed rule that, if adopted, will implement the...more
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) recently released a memorandum signaling its increasing willingness to review contractor compliance with cybersecurity standards in its contracts and take action against noncompliant...more
A recent DoD memorandum should serve as a warning to contractors that they need to focus on cybersecurity compliance now or risk serious consequences. A recent DoD memorandum should serve as a warning to contractors that...more
On June 16, 2022, the US Department of Defense (DoD) issued a memorandum (DoD Memo) “reminding” contracting officers that noncompliance with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) clause 252.204-7012,...more
On November 4, 2021, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) announced Version 2.0 of the highly publicized Cybersecurity Maturity Model...more
People like to say that cybersecurity threats are constantly evolving. So perhaps it’s fitting that cybersecurity compliance is undergoing a significant evolution of its own this year, too. That evolution is the arrival of...more
A recent interim rule from the Department of Defense (DoD) would create a new self-assessment methodology for the cybersecurity requirements in NIST SP 800-171. The same rule also would implement the Cybersecurity Maturity...more