Pentagon’s push for greater cybersecurity in supply chain impacts contractors

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Pentagon’s push for greater cybersecurity in supply chain impacts contractors

With cybersecurity among the top national security concerns, the Pentagon has been pushing for greater cybersecurity in its supply chain — all 300,000 compani...

September 10, 2019 8:59 am

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With cybersecurity among the top national security concerns, the Pentagon has been pushing for greater cybersecurity in its supply chain — all 300,000 companies in it. Now it’s unveiled what it calls a cybersecurity maturity model certification standard. Executive vice president and counsel at the Professional Services Council Alan Chvotkin joined Federal Drive with Tom Temin for more on how one corner of the contractor world views this development.