{"id":211688,"date":"2026-02-09T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-contractor-cybersecurity-practices-what-you-need-to-know-about-gsas-new-cui-guide-sheppard-mullin-richter-hampton-llp\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T14:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T19:45:10","slug":"gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-contractor-cybersecurity-practices-what-you-need-to-know-about-gsas-new-cui-guide-sheppard-mullin-richter-hampton-llp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/09\/gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-contractor-cybersecurity-practices-what-you-need-to-know-about-gsas-new-cui-guide-sheppard-mullin-richter-hampton-llp\/","title":{"rendered":"GSA Signals Enhanced Focus on Contractor Cybersecurity Practices: What You Need to Know About GSA\u2019s New CUI Guide | Sheppard Mullin Richter &#038; Hampton LLP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-4422913\/\">GSA Signals Enhanced Focus on Contractor Cybersecurity Practices: What You Need to Know About GSA\u2019s New CUI Guide | Sheppard Mullin Richter &#038; Hampton LLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-4422913\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-4422913\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-09 14:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On January 5, 2026, the General Services Administration (\u201cGSA\u201d) issued an updated version of its policy guidance document for contractors on protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (\u201cCUI\u201d). This document, titled IT Security Procedural Guide: Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations Process CIO-IT Security-21-112 (the \u201cGSA CUI Guide\u201d or \u201cGuide\u201d), is significant in that it represents the first update since the original version was published in 2022 and incorporates data security concepts and structures used elsewhere in the Federal Government (such as the Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (\u201cFedRAMP\u201d) and the Department of Defense\/War\u2019s (\u201cDoD\u201d) Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (\u201cCMMC\u201d) program).<\/p>\n<p>The timing of the release of the updated Guide is notable in that it aligns with new regulations and requirements\u2013particularly those for CMMC, which went into effect for contractors November 2025\u2013as well as increased enforcement actions by the Department of Justice (\u201cDOJ\u201d) relating to contractor cyber fraud. While CMMC is a DoD-only program, publication of the new GSA Guide signals that contractors that process, store, or transmit CUI under civilian agency contracts should expect heightened scrutiny, formal assessments, and continuous monitoring obligations.<\/p>\n<p>Below are key highlights from the GSA CUI Guide.<\/p>\n<p>Applicability<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Guide seemingly applies broadly to any company that will maintain CUI within its information system(s) under a GSA contract (i.e., CUI is resident in a non-federal information system). This mirrors the scope of CMMC for DoD contractors and subcontractors.<\/li>\n<li>Notably, GSA solicitations and contracts must specifically adopt the Guide to bind contractors to these requirements. The inclusion of the Guide as a contractual requirement requires coordination with the GSA Office of the Chief Information Security Officer (\u201cOCISO\u201d)&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/gsa-signals-enhanced-focus-on-4422913\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GSA Signals Enhanced Focus on Contractor Cybersecurity Practices: What You Need to Know About GSA\u2019s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211689,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.2105_114.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[28,57],"class_list":["post-211688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-data-security","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211688"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211690,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211688\/revisions\/211690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}