Regardless of the size of an agency - big, medium or small - or its mission, the need to provide proper cyber defenses is essential to protect government IT assets, says the chief information security ...

The GAO also says the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is behind on one governmentwide requirement — a report to Congress on FISMA compliance for fiscal 2019. The report is the latest ...

Many agencies achieved compliance with some of the 17 security areas noted in FISMA; but the more technical areas, such as personal security, identification and authentication, and access control ...

The recently released U.S Federal Computer Security Report Card for 2008, indicates that several critical to national security departments continue failing to implement the Federal Information ...

Congress is contemplating changes to the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002, and a panel of government and private-sector experts provided some strong arguments for doing so when ...

To ramp up security measures, compliance standards such as the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) directs public and private contractors working with federal agencies to implement ...

Regarding FISMA II, Reymann states that it is unclear whether this act will simply turn up the volume on security rather than compliance, or it will be a total rewrite of the original law. Finally, ...

Robin Gandhi on making FISMA compliance decisions October 9, 2015. Host Kevin Greene and guest Robin Gandhi, an associate professor of information assurance at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, ...

Federal health IT leaders are looking for ideas on how federal agencies can maintain their FISMA compliance while also engaging in patient data exchange. Health and Human Services Department ...