Top Cybersecurity Considerations for Government Contractors in 2022

The cybersecurity posture of government contractors was an area of intense focus and ongoing regulatory development for the federal government in 2021. The coming year will also include many anticipated cybersecurity-related changes and developments.

• In response to growing pressure from defense contractors, and faced with the daunting task of third party certification of the entire defense industrial base, DoD partially reversed course in November 2021 and instead announced a revised CMMC 2.0 framework.
• Last fall the Department of Justice created a new Civil Cyber-Fraud Initiative to use the power of the False Claims Act to initiate suits against federal contractors that fall short of their regulatory and contractual cybersecurity obligations.
• The Biden administration will continue its efforts to protect federal government networks from cybersecurity threats and to promote notifications of incidents by federal contractors to their federal agency customers.

Source:

• Morrison Foerster: Top Cybersecurity Considerations for Government Contractors in 2022