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FISMA: Making the Grade - An Introduction to the Federal Information Security Management Act

Tags: security management, information security, cio, management

Overview The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) makes permanent many of the new information security management responsibilities introduced by the Government Information Security Reform Act (GISRA), which became law in 2000. FISMA goes further, however, requiring objective assessments of the effectiveness of security controls at least once each year on every information system operated by, or for, the federal government. FISMA requires both an internal evaluation under the direction of the CIO and an independent assessment under the direction of the agency Inspector General. Since 2000, Congress has sought to step up pressure on the heads of agencies to comply with FISMA by collecting assessments and publishing a letter grade for each agency.

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Publisher: VeriSign
File Format: PDF
Date Published: Aug 23, 2005
Format: White Papers
Topics: Network Security, Security Standards, Security Management

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