The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA) was passed with the purpose of improving computer and network security at government agencies and government contractors. The Act called ...

Contractors working with federal agencies face serious responsibilities around cybersecurity. They must protect sensitive government systems and data under the framework of the Federal Information ...

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 officials ...

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 they ...

Cyberattacks on government agencies are an ongoing global crisis. The recent attack campaign on United States federal agencies due to a vulnerability in a solution used for transferring sensitive ...

Survey shows little confidence in FISMA's effectiveness. With recent research highlighting compliance burdens as a top concern among IT workers, there’s little surprise in a new report that found ...

EMC is developing technology to track and verify the location of virtual machines in cloud networks, potentially solving one of the key sticking points preventing customers from using the cloud. See ...

A report titled Is FISMA Making the Grade? demonstrates that large and small agencies believe their information technology security has improved since the Federal Information Security Management Act ...

Watchfire Corp., a vendor of online risk management software, will on Monday release a new product designed to help U.S. government Web sites comply with a broad range of security, privacy and other ...

Network security--particularly privacy of employee and citizen data--tops the list of concerns expressed by federal government IT decision makers, according to a security survey released by Cisco ...

Depending on who you talk to, the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is either the greatest thing in the world or a government bureaucratic mess. Is FISMA coming soon to a state or ...