Contractors working with federal agencies face serious responsibilities around cybersecurity. They must protect sensitive ...

The House Oversight and Accountability Committee passed the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2023 out of committee on Thursday, marking a renewed effort by lawmakers to pass ...

The annual release of cybersecurity grades are helping to improve U.S. government security, but the law the grades are based on needs to be more specific, U.S. agency chief information security ...

FISMA, a certification granted by the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA), requires federal agencies to develop, document and implement an information security system for its data and ...

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report indicating that the implementation of the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) by federal agencies remains ...

It was an IT bombshell heard ’round the Beltway this week. Google lacks Federal Information Management Act (FISMA) certification for its cloud-based “Google Apps for Government” product. The bombshell ...

A recent government report found that major federal agencies are struggling to meet U.S. data protection regulations, a finding that is less about competence and more about the ineffectiveness of the ...

Four U.S. agencies — the departments of Homeland Security, Justice, Defense and State — are apparently still having trouble complying with some of the requirements of the Federal Information Security ...

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) has received Federal Information Security Management Act certification that validates its network and security operations centers’ capacity to implement recognized data ...