Byte-Sized Q&A: Why care about COTS?
Podcast | 10.21.21
Crowell & Moring’s “Byte-Sized Q&A” podcast takes the complex world of government contracts cybersecurity and breaks it down into byte-sized pieces. In this episode, host Kate Growley is joined by Yuan Zhou to talk through how to determine if you’re providing a commercial off-the-shelf – or “COTS” – item and what that means for your contractual cybersecurity obligations.
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