Commerce Dept. releases proposed ICT supply-chain security rule

The Commerce Department today released for comment a new proposed rule that establishes a case-by-case process for evaluating and perhaps prohibiting transactions that pose a cybersecurity risk to the U.S. information and communications technology supply chain.

“The proposed rule sets out the procedures the Secretary of Commerce plans to use to identify, assess, and address ICTS transactions that pose an undue risk to ICTS in the United States, to the critical infrastructure or the digital economy in the United States,...