Contractors may face conflicting cybersecurity rules

Federal contractors that do work for both the Defense Department and civilian agencies may find themselves facing varying and possibly conflicting cybersecurity requirements for protecting government data.

“A government contractor with both DoD and civilian contracts, that handles both [controlled unclassified information] and covered defense information on the same system, could be facing multiple and conflicting standards,” according to Mary Bosco and Norma Krayem of the law firm Holland & Knight in an Aug. 28 “Client Alert” blog post....