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NIST finalizes Cybersecurity Framework updates

The latest version of NIST’s Cybersecurity Framework includes new information on governance, supply chain risks and more.

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New House Speaker. New cyber guidelines. What contractors can do to navigate it all.

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NIST takes on major vulnerability in cyber guidelines through novel ‘patch release’

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House bill would require federal contractors to adopt cyber vulnerability disclosure policy

Vulnerability disclosure has proliferated across federal agencies in recent years. A new House bill would make them mandatory for contractors, too.

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Cybersecurity comes home to roost for federal contractors

Contractors will, somehow, be living under it, and there’s still time to comment on it: The revision to NIST special publication 800-171 on protection…

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Securing the software supply chain – Analysis of the new national cybersecurity strategy

In March, the White House unveiled a new National Cybersecurity Strategy, which deviates from the National Cyber Strategy rolled out by the Trump administration in 2018. Among the changes implemented in the new strategy is a call to “rebalance the responsibility” of defending cyberspace, including a move away from end users and toward the “most capable and best-positioned actors,” including owners and operators of key technologies and infrastructures.

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