FAR and DFARS › DFARS Part 239: Acquisition of Information Technology › Subpart 239.71
DFARS 239.7101 Definition.
The codified text (eCFR, as of 2026-10-02). Under the Revolutionary FAR Overhaul ↗, agencies follow class deviations with new text for many parts while the formal rules go through the Federal Register: check the solicitation and your contract's clauses, which rule.
In plain English
This section defines 'information assurance' for the DFARS subpart. It covers measures to protect and defend information and information systems by ensuring availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation, including restoration through protection, detection, and reaction capabilities. Contractors should understand this definition because it sets the scope of information assurance requirements in contracts.
Applies to: Contractors subject to DFARS subpart 239.71
Key terms: information assurance · availability · integrity · authentication · confidentiality
Written by AI from this section's text. A guide, not legal advice: the text below rules.
The text
Information assurance, as used in this subpart, means measures that protect and defend information, that is entered, processed, transmitted, stored, retrieved, displayed, or destroyed, and information systems, by ensuring their availability, integrity, authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation. This includes providing for the restoration of information systems by incorporating protection, detection, and reaction capabilities.
← 239.7100 Scope of subpart. · 239.7102 Policy and responsibilities. →
Rule changes for DFARS Part 239
- Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement: Disclosure of Information Regarding Foreign Obligations (DFARS Case 2018-D064) ↗ · proposed 2024-11-15 · comments due 2025-01-14
Source: eCFR, 48 CFR chapters 1 and 2 (GPO GovInfo bulk data) ↗. Plain words for the terms: glossary.