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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Gordon Bitko, senior vice president at Information Technology Industry Council and former FBI chief information officer, discusses his recommendations to Congress for modernizing FISMA. Dave Powner, ...

Microsoft's suite of hosted business applications for government -- its Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS) F-- has recieved FISMA certification, Microsoft officials said on April 20.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...