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FISMA news from FierceGovernmentIT
The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) is Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002. FISMA assigns responsibilities to agencies such as the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to strengthen the security of information systems used by government offices, employees and contractors.
FISMA recognized the need of governmental agencies to instill strict information security programs and guidelines. The act requires federal agencies to develop and implement a documented, enterprise-wide, supportive program to provide security within the information systems. FISMA has been instrumental in bringing federal attention to issues of cybersecurity, although many have criticized it for promoting a rote, paper-based approach to systems security.
NewsSurvey: Federal IT skeptical of cloud computing benefits
Seventy one percent of federal IT workers say pressure to rapidly adopt cloud-computing technology creates security risks for their organizations, according to a survey from Ponemon Institute, Read more...
NRC cybersecurity hole remediation needs work, says audit firm
Remediation of cybersecurity vulnerabilities continues to remain a problem at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, says a recently released annual audit of agency systems conducted under the Federal Read more...
Security system planning, testing lapses due to budget constraints, says SSA
Social Security Administration officials say lack of money prevented them from updating and testing security controls on two major systems, says an SSA office of inspector general audit (.pdf) Read more...
FERC: $3.8M not enough for FISMA compliance
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has not fully implemented cybersecurity policies and procedures due to budget and resource constraints, FERC officials told auditors performing a fiscal 2011 Read more...
DOT continues to lag on resolving cybersecurity problems
The Transportation Department continues to have difficulty remediating cybersecurity vulnerabilities, the departmental inspector general says in an annual assessment on Federal Information Security Read more...
Treasury valued AT&T as provider more than it valued competence, says IG
It was more important for the Treasury Department to keep AT&T (NYSE: T) as its tele-communications contractor than "to take the proper steps to either obtain satisfactory performance from the Read more...
Privacy controls to be included in NIST cybersecurity guidance
Privacy controls will become an explicit part of agency cybersecurity guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology with the addition later this year of a new appendix to NIST Read more...
Continuous monitoring part of fiscal 2011 FISMA metrics
Federal agencies preparing their annual Federal Information Security Management Act reports for Homeland Security Department scrutiny later this year now know what metrics DHS wants agencies to use. Read more...
Federal agencies uncertain how to respond to 'cloud first'
Security remains the largest concern to public cloud adoption among government and higher education officials, according to an online survey of 646 information technology professionals. The survey, Read more...
NIST: Cloud computing has a number of technical issues
Cloud computing is not for everyone, say draft National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines. The draft, published online May 12, outlines various cloud computing models and discusses Read more...
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