A new wave of False Claims Act cases is crashing ashore. Based on the federal government’s inclusion of toughened cybersecurity requirements for government contractors in the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and agency supplemental regulations, numerous False Claims Act (FCA) cases will undoubtedly be filed and litigated in coming years against prime contractors and their major subcontractors for allegedly failing to comply with their contractual cybersecurity obligations. Read more as Andrew Mohr and C. Kelly Kroll weigh in on the FAR and DFARS cybersecurity clauses that are relatively new and still evolving.
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