Boyens: Work continues to set up Federal Acquisition Security Council ahead of issuing removal and exclusion orders

SAN FRANCISCO -- The Federal Acquisition Security Council completed a lot of work to make sure the process for issuing removal and exclusion orders for untrustworthy equipment on federal systems is deliberate and risk-based, according to NIST supply chain leader Jon Boyens, who participated in panel with leaders behind DOD’s cyber certification program.

The FASC was created in response to the government’s work to remove Kaspersky products from federal networks through a binding operational directive issued by the Department of Homeland...