New Cybersecurity Standards Happening Now, and Comp Firms Need To Get on Board

Department of Defense contracts already are being signed that require much-heightened levels of cybersecurity, and vendors — even those providing workers' compensation services — should act now to meet the new standards, government and industry officials said last week. “It's real. I cannot implore companies enough: Do not wait to get cyber-hardened,” said Katie Arrington, chief information security officer for acquisition and sustainment at the Defense Department. Arrington, the federal government's point person on the new standards designed to prevent co...