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Federal agencies have taken numerous actions to protect against
the threat of cyberattacks. Those actions include measures designed
to protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) held on
information systems outside the federal government. Standards
promulgated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) in Special Publication (SP) 800-171 have been incorporated
in regulations and government contracts as the baseline standards
for protecting CUI on non-federal (i.e., contractor or grantee)
systems. This past spring, in response to concerns about emerging
and existent advanced persistent threats (APT) NIST released a new
set of
