The Bureau of Industry and Security has postponed from Jan. 19 to March 7 the effective date of an interim final rule imposing controls on exports of cybersecurity items. BIS states that this delay is designed to provide sufficient time for industry to implement necessary compliance measures and for BIS to provide additional public guidance.
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The rule establishes a new export control on cybersecurity items for national security and anti-terrorism reasons. BIS explains that these items warrant control because they could be used for surveillance, espionage, or other actions that disrupt, deny, or degrade networks or devices on them.
The rule also establishes a new license exception ACE (authorized cybersecurity exports) that authorizes exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) of these items to most destinations while retaining a license requirement for exports to countries of national security or weapons of mass destruction concern. Countries subject to a U.S. arms embargo will also require a license.
BIS has said that (with the exception of certain exclusions) restricted end-users targeted by this rule include government end-users (as defined in section 740.22 of the Export Administration Regulations) of countries of concern for national security reasons or those subject to an arms embargo. Furthermore, license exception ACE will impose an end-use restriction in circumstances where the exporter, re-exporter, or transferor knows or has reason to know at the time of export, reexport, or transfer (in-country), including a deemed export or reexport, that the cybersecurity item will be used to affect the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of information or information systems without authorization by the owner, operator, or administrator of the system (including the information and processes within such systems).
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