OMB Approves BIS Information Security Controls Final Rule

Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that it had approved a ‘Final Rule’ for DOC’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) for “Information Security Controls: Cybersecurity Items”. When this was sent to OIRA back in March, the submission was billed as a “Delay of Effective Date”, but there is no mention of that in yesterday’s announcement. It could be the final rule for the interim rule that was published last October. Well, we will see what is going on when this is published in the Federal Register, probably this coming week.