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 ...

An organization “can’t rest on the laurels of a good FISMA rating,” he said. West said enterprise mobility strategy feeds off the IT strategic plan, which also addresses the convergence of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee took a major step this week toward overhauling the aging Federal Information Security Management Act, lessening agencies’ static ...

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 ...

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 ...

As part of the Obama administration’s legislative efforts to safeguard government agency information, the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA II) was recently enacted ...

Additionally, PCI is pleased to announce its successful completion of a compliance audit on the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) using the National Institute of ...

Tom Davis wrote the original Federal Information Security Management Act in 2002, and says the legislation has served the government and nation well. The one-time powerful chairman of the House ...