By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond Read part one here What is the difference between NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC? Aspect NIST SP 800-171 CMMC 2.0 Certification process Self-assessment only Self-assessments combined with mandatory third-party certification for most Level 2 contractors and all Level 3 contractors Requirements Narrowly...
By Payam Pourkhomami, President & CEO of OSIbeyond The Department of Defense has been battling digital threats for decades, striving to fortify the defense industrial base. To achieve this, numerous cybersecurity requirements have been introduced for organizations that process or store controlled unclassified information, or CUI. Among these req...
Matt Barry, chief operating officer at HP Federal, noted that threat actors can use endpoints as vectors that could enable them to infiltrate an organization’s network and highlighted the importance of security by design to ensure the security of such endpoints and safeguard government and contractor systems. “When we design more secure solu...
The Department of Commerce has formed a consortium comprising more than 200 artificial intelligence developers and researchers from government, industry and academia to help create standards for the development and use of trustworthy AI technologies. The U.S. AI Safety Institute Consortium includes companies such as Accenture (NYSE: ACN), Amazon (Na...
Three companies have won spots on a potential five-year, $125 million small business set-aside contract to provide cybersecurity and privacy support services to the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A notice posted Friday on SAM.gov states that NIST has selected Analygence, CyberESI and Electrosoft as contractors of the CAPSS indefinit...
Jason Proctor, advisory systems engineer for cyber recovery and compliance at Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL), said government agencies looking to better protect data from cyberattacks and take an all-encompassing approach to security should reduce the complexity of strategies and tools. “In other words, one strategy should cover the entire inf...
The National Science Foundation has started soliciting proposals for the fourth competition of the National Artificial Intelligence Research Institutes program and expects to make up to five awards in fiscal years 2024 and 2025. The fourth National AI Research Institutes competition is anticipated to reach up to $100 million in total funding and wil...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has started to solicit proposals from industry sources that could provide data and analysis on semiconductor credit ratings, research and financial data. The Department of Commerce’s CHIPS program office will use the information to assess potential financial and credit risks associated with loan a...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking industry proposals for a project to develop core technologies for a sixth-generation wireless network. A notice published Friday on SAM.gov states the acquisition is reserved for small businesses. NIST is looking for a vendor to design, evaluate and demonstrate artificial intelligence-bas...
The Biden administration has released its first iteration of a multi-year plan to implement the U.S. federal government’s new national strategy to defend cyberspace. The implementation plan outlines more than 65 high-impact initiatives assigned to specific federal agencies and aligned with the five pillars and 27 strategic objectives of the Na...
