
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on Tuesday released a draft guidance concerning federal government contractor information technology (IT) security that would require consistent standards across services that relate to sensitive information.The proposed rules would direct federal agencies to implement stronger cybersecurity protections in acquisitions for products or services that generate, collect, maintain, disseminate, store, or provides access to Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) on behalf of the federal government, according to the draft guidance.The guidance was released…