On January 19, 2017, the Department of Homeland Security ("DHS") issued a proposed rule that would apply the same requirements for safeguards to both contractors who run federal information systems and contractors who may obtain controlled unclassified information in the course of working with DHS. DHS also proposed two other rules relating to data security and privacy, one addressing privacy training for DHS contractors and one addressing information technology security awareness training for DHS contractors.

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