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The webinar is tomorrow, April 17, 2019,  (1-3 EDT).

Topics include:

• A brief overview of the CUI program;
• An update on agency implementation efforts;
• The status and plans for a CUI Federal Acquisition Regulation Rule;
• CUI Industry Day; and,
• Time for Questions and Answers.

Hosted by: Devin Casey and Charlene Wallace

Participant Instructions

The conference begins at 1:00 PM Eastern Time on April 17, 2019; you may join the conference 10 minutes prior.

Step 1: Dial into the conference.

Dial-in: 1-877-369-5243 or 1-617-668-3633

Access Code: 0506395##

Step 2: Join the conference on your computer.

Entry Link: http://ems8.intellor.com/login/812719

When you access the entry link above, you will be provided a choice – to install the WebEx plug-in for your preferred browser or to join the web conference using a temporary path. Either option is acceptable.

Need technical assistance? Call the AT&T Help Desk at 1-888-796-6118 or 1-847-562-7015.

Thank you to all who attended the CUI program’s first Industry Day.  The day was full of an abundance of products and services being offered to help implement the CUI Program.  Based on the attendance and the outpouring of interest in offering another Industry Day, we will be holding another one possibly in late spring.  We will post more information to the blog when we get more details.  Thanks again.

The following is the most recent version of the NIST 800-171a:

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-171a.pdf

On October 18, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in coordination with the Department of Defense (DoD) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), will host an informational workshop providing an overview of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), the Defense Acquisition Regulations System (DFARS) Safeguarding Covered Defense Information and Cyber Incident Reporting Clause, and NIST Special Publications 800-171 and 800-171A.

This workshop will also feature panels of Federal Government representatives discussing expectations for evaluating evidence and implementing the CUI Security Requirements and industry representatives sharing best practices and lessons learned.

The CUI Security Requirements Workshop is open to all interested stakeholders and is free to attend. The workshop will also be available via webcast; advanced registration is not required for webcast.

To register please sign up here (for online or in person):

https://www.nist.gov/news-events/events/2018/10/controlled-unclassified-information-security-requirements-workshop

(In-person registration closes October 11, 2018.)

DATE: October 18, 2018 

TIME:  7:30 – 5:30

LOCATION: NIST, 100 Bureau Drive, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899 (Red Auditorium)

Just as the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO) Director Mark A. Bradley acts as the Executive Agent for the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Program in reforming the protection and handling of unclassified information across Executive Branch agencies, the ISOO Director also serves as the Executive Secretary for the Public Interest Declassification Board (PIDB).

Congress established the PIDB to promote broad public access to an accurate record of the most significant national security decisions and activities of the United States Government.  Serving the President as a joint Executive and Legislative Branch advisory board, the PIDB seats nine members, five appointed by the President and one each by the Speaker and Minority Leader of the House as well as the Majority and Minority Leaders of the Senate. Appointees must be U.S. citizens who are preeminent in the fields of history, national security, foreign policy, intelligence policy, social science, law, or archives.

The PIDB advises the President on the classification and declassification of National Security Information (NSI), providing policy recommendations that promote the appropriate sharing and protection of NSI in the current digital age.  The bipartisan PIDB is in the final stages of preparing a new report to the President recommending a strategy to reduce over-classification, to make classification more precise, and to facilitate more rapid and agile information sharing through digital communications and information systems.

PIDB’s Declassification Technology Working Group, composed of Executive Branch classification and information security officials, have provided input to develop the forthcoming report to the President.  Recommendations in the report focus on issues of modernizing declassification in the management of electronic records across the federal government, and other issues of information security and access vital to the public interest.

PIDB encourages information and security management professionals to comment on the recommendations by subscribing to the PIDB blog Transforming Classification, at: https://transforming-classification.blogs.archives.gov/, where, in the coming weeks, PIDB will publish the report.