Compliance, Ethics and Cybersecurity
Safeguard federal information, report cyber incidents on time, and keep your certifications honest.
Lessons
- Recognise the first basic safeguarding requirement.
- Apply it to accounts on your own systems.
- Know what "rapidly report" means under the DFARS safeguarding clause.
- Build an incident runbook around it.
- Know which level a contract requires.
- Plan a self-assessment or third-party assessment.
- Map safeguarding requirements to the systems and people that handle the information.
- Know the role of the system security plan in a DoD assessment.
- Read your SAM representations before you certify.
- Update them when facts change.
- Know what equipment you may not provide or use.
- Answer the related representations correctly.
- Recognise controlled technical data.
- Know when to get specialist advice.