Industry lawyer says 'go forward' with cyber certification as Defense Dept. program takes shape

A leading industry lawyer on federal contracts is advising companies to move forward with cybersecurity audits and to adopt use of draft standards as the Pentagon completes working on setting up its landmark certification program unveiled last month.

“One of the questions I've gotten is 'Well, we sort of were going to do a self audit of our systems. Should we just not do that and wait until the third party certifier?' And I think the answer to that is...