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Cyber

Pentagon Official: DoD Working Toward Cyber Compliance Plan in 2019

By Vivienne Machi

Wednesday, February 13th, 2019

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Pentagon Official: DoD Working Toward Cyber Compliance Plan in 2019

The Defense Department expects to have a plan in place for certifying industry partners for cyber compliance by the end of 2019, a senior acquisition official said Feb. 13. The goal is to achieve some sort of system similar to a credit score, that would indicate a supplier’s level of cybersecurity readiness in relation to DoD requirements, Kevin Fahey, assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, said at the National Defense Industrial Association’s Section 809 Panel 3 event in Washington, D.C.…

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