The Professional Services Council wants the National Institute of Standards and Technology to consider how to align NIST's foundational guidance on handling controlled unclassified information with other cyber procurement requirements, including the Pentagon's cyber certification program. “NIST should take additional steps to align SP 800-171 with other procurement-related cybersecurity guidance and, where practicable, release all updated documents as a suite,” PSC says in recent comments to NIST on the first draft of NIST Special Publication 800-171 Rev. 3. PSC says,...
