Jeh Johnson, the new secretary of Homeland Security, is expected to become one of the top advocates of the administration's cybersecurity policy as the White House shifts more IT security responsibilities to DHS.
The latest FISMA audit of the Department of Homeland Security furnishes fodder for both sides of the argument over whether Congress should codify Obama administration actions that have granted DHS sway over other federal civilian agencies.
The White House is intensifying its effort to get federal agencies to adopt continuous monitoring and move away from the paper-based checklist compliance they've followed for a decade under the Federal Information Security Management Act.
Jeh Johnson, at his confirmation hearing to be the next Homeland Security secretary, pledges to fix internal cybersecurity problems at DHS before seeking further authority to have the department help other agencies get their IT security houses in order.
Major agencies continue to struggle with implementing the Federal Information Security Management Act, which governs government cybersecurity, more than a decade after its enactment, according to a GAO report.
With Congress back in Washington, lawmakers are focused on Syria, the federal budget and the debt limit. So cybersecurity is taking a backseat. Will that situation change soon?
Former OMB leaders Karen Evans and Franklin Reeder are trying to determine how to improve evaluation of information security within U.S. federal government agencies in an effort to correct current flaws.
The Federal Information Security Amendments Act would require agencies to continuously monitor their IT systems for cyberthreats and implement regular threat assessments.
Getting inspectors general and agencies' IT security heads to agree on how best to evaluate information security should strengthen U.S. federal government agencies' risk management frameworks, say former OMB leaders Karen Evans and Franklin Reeder.
A bill to reform the Federal Information Security Management Act, which is heading to the House of Representatives, delineates the responsibilities for each agency's chief information security officer. Read what they are.
The latest report to Congress on the implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act runs 68 pages. But even after reading the entire report, don't be surprised if you can't tell if government IT systems are secure. Here's why.
The bill's chief sponsor says agencies struggle with cyberthreats. "This update to FISMA will incorporate the last decade of technological innovation, while also addressing FISMA shortcomings realized over the past years." Rep. Darrell Issa says.
Debate over cybersecurity bills last year coupled with recent, highly publicized attacks have raised the visibility of the threat, and that could push Congress to enact IT security legislation in 2013, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel says.
The call for an overarching federal cybersecurity strategy comes in the wake of findings from U.S.-CERT that federal agencies reported a nearly eight-fold increase in cyber-incidents over seven years.
As enterprises move more applications to the cloud, continuous monitoring will play a greater role in assuring the software is patched in a timely manner, says John Streufert, DHS director of federal network resilience.
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