That gives the department a score of four out five in all FISMA cybersecurity functions except "recover," which remains at a three. The "protect" function encompasses activities like properly ...

But the watchdog also found that metrics for assessing security programs aren’t considered useful by some agencies and their inspectors general, who complete annual FISMA assessments. As a result, the ...

FISMA requires covered agencies to develop and ... no more than eight received an effective rating in any given year over the last six years of reporting (fiscal years 2017 through 2022 ...

Pursuant to the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), OIG reviewed the Department’s security program and system security controls for the enterprise-wide intelligence system.

Under FISMA, the National Institute of Standards ... The act requires the GAO to do regular progress reviews for the law’s overseer, the Office of Management and Budget, which reports the ...

The report was ordered by Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), the original sponsor of FISMA, the Federal Information Security Management Act. Apparently no agencies are compliant with the law, passed in 2002.

FISMA is the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, [44 U.S.C., Sec. 3541 et seq]. FISMA was enacted as Title III of the E-Government act of 2002 (Public Law 107-347, Volume 116 Statutes ...

FISMA defininition: What does FISMA stand for? FISMA, or the Federal Information Security Management Act, is a U.S. federal law passed in 2002 that seeks to establish guidelines and cybersecurity ...

Sixty-seven percent of CISOs surveyed said they believe their agency’s IT security has improved since their Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) grades were released a year ago.

Amazon Web Services has received its FISMA Moderate certification from the General Services Administration. With the addition of FISMA Moderate, the AWS security and compliance framework now covers ...

The Office of Management and Budget this month unveiled an interactive collection tool called CyberScope that should help agencies fulfill their IT security reporting requirements under the Federal ...