While the information required to be submitted for this fall’s information systems security reporting under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) hasn’t changed significantly, OMB announced in a memorandum last week that FISMA reports will…
In a GAO report released last week reflecting testimony delivered to the House subcommittee on Technology and Innovation, GAO’s Greg Wilshusen echoed his own previous testimony and a growing number of congressional voices pointing out that…
Ever since President Obama announced his intention to appoint a federal cyber-security “czar” in the Executive Office of the President, there have been a steady stream of open letters and articles making recommendations for the as-yet-unfilled…
In an otherwise unremarkable Washington Post article about the Department of Defense’s plan to create a “cyber-command” run out of the Pentagon, a couple of points raised in the article demonstrate the persistence of some information…
As an immediate result of the 60-day review of the state of federal cybersecurity activities conducted at the behest of the Obama administration, the president announced he will (as has been anticipated) appoint a federal cybersecurity…
The two primary information resources with which most people are familiar for security emergency response are the Computer Emergency Response Team Coordination Center (CERT/CC) at Carnegie-Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute and the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness…
The recently released fiscal year 2008 report to Congress on FISMA implementation once again highlights government-wide progress in meeting certain key objectives for their information systems. Among these is the periodic testing of their security controls,…
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