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The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) is a set of cybersecurity rules, guidelines, and regulation codes used by the Department of Defense (DoD) to safeguard controlled unclassified information (CUI) obtained and transmitted by contractors and subcontractors. If your business provides products and services to the DoD, it must first comply with DFARS regulations.

Contractors for the US Department of Defense (DoD) are expected to be familiar with the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) compliance requirements. If you’re a DoD contractor and want tips on how to achieve compliance, understand the difference between DFARS and Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC), or know the different types of self-assessment checklists for ...

Cybercriminals have targeted and continue to target the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) sector, as well as the Department of Defense's (DoD) supply chain in the hopes of stealing vital intellectual property and sensitive information. The DIB sector is made up of more than 300,000 organizations that research, engineer, develop, acquire, produce, deliver, sustain, and operate military services, ...

Companies that manufacture products for the US Department of Defense (DoD) must comply with cybersecurity standards set by the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS). These standards are enforced to ensure that information systems storing contractor data are safeguarded, under the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication 800-171 mandate to ...

Being a government contractor means having to comply with the numerous regulations—including federal requirements to help safeguard against cyber attacks. With a dramatic increase in cyber threats today, it’s no surprise that this is one area that DoD contractors must examine carefully.

If you’re an existing US Department of Defense (DoD) contractor, then you’ve probably achieved Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) compliance by now. But did you know that DoD will soon be requiring all contractors — some as early as September 2020 — to pass the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC)

The US Department of Defense (DoD) handles a lot of controlled unclassified information (CUI), which requires “safeguarding or dissemination controls pursuant to and consistent with applicable law, regulations, and government-wide policies.” In December 2015, the DoD published an interim rule to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) that required DoD contractors to meet ...

The reliance of businesses on technology has grown exponentially over the years. This increased dependence on IT has also led to an increased need to enhance backup and disaster recovery (DR) strategies. Because the intensity of natural disasters continues to increase, the economic consequences have also become much greater.

It doesn’t take much to convince business owners to move operations from on-premises to the public cloud. Ask any IT specialist about the public cloud and they’d be quick to rattle off a list of its benefits: agility, convenience, and pay-as-you-go budget flexibility, to name a few.

Today, more and more businesses are leveraging cloud computing to access, process, manage, and store key business data and resources. It allows them to take advantage of computing services on a pay-per-use basis, which brings significant savings and numerous other business benefits.