NIST SP 800-137

From: FCW

By Mark Rockwell

The General Services Administration is making cybersecurity services simpler for federal acquisition professionals to order via a special item number on the Schedule 70 IT acquisition vehicle.

The SIN consolidates and categorizes product offerings under the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program into product families that make them easier to find in the thousands of offerings on the schedule. Roughly 30,000 different tools — approximately half of the full CDM approved products list — are available via the SIN, Larry Hale, director of the IT security subcategory for GSA’s Federal Acquisition Service, said on the sidelines of an FCW industry event. Those products contract currently are offered via eight systems integrators, Hale said, noting that he is eager to add more contractors.

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