The Government Contracts Cyber Café Series provides coaching, training and analysis to help you work through the technical, legal, accounting and other complications confronting your organization, with the goal of helping you achieve compliance with the current DFARS cyber rules, regulations and contract clauses.
During our July 17 webinar, “Bid and Proposal: Protect Your Business With Notifications,” we will discuss best practices for See more +
The Government Contracts Cyber Café Series provides coaching, training and analysis to help you work through the technical, legal, accounting and other complications confronting your organization, with the goal of helping you achieve compliance with the current DFARS cyber rules, regulations and contract clauses.
During our July 17 webinar, “Bid and Proposal: Protect Your Business With Notifications,” we will discuss best practices for mitigating risk when preparing and submitting proposals that are subject to DFARS 252.204-7012 and 252.239-7010. Whether you are a prime contractor or a supporting subcontractor at any tier, there are steps you should take at the proposal preparation stage to identify your cybersecurity gaps and, where necessary, inform your upstream customer of any compliance requirements that you cannot satisfy. You are not alone. There are many entities that are not yet fully compliant and will not soon be fully compliant with DOD’s cybersecurity rules. The rules contemplate that offerors may have compliance gaps, but prescribe specific steps to be followed to provide adequate notification of those gaps and to demonstrate a satisfactory level of functional equivalency for mitigation of cyber risk associated with the gaps.
Hilary Cairnie, chair of Pepper Hamilton’s Government Contracts Practice Group, and Heather Engel, chief strategy officer for cybersecurity firm Sera-Brynn, will discuss these issues and some practical steps you might consider to identify your cyber gaps and effectively communicate those to your upstream customer. See less -
