The FISMA Focus IPD

On July 18, I was invited to testify before the House Oversight, Intergovernmental Affairs Subcommittee to discuss the impact of federal regulations on state government IT. I spoke about the $372 million in savings and cost avoidance achieved by Oklahoma’s IT unification efforts and how federal regulations were often a barrier to the IT unification/consolidation process.

IT unification/consolidation is a priority for many state CIOs because, as was the case in Oklahoma, it leads to cost savings and a more secure cybersecurity posture. These two reasons drive and justify the effort to consolidate state IT and NASCIO’s data show that IT consolidation has been a priority for state CIOs for over a decade. (IT consolidation/optimization has ranked in the top three CIO priorities since the launch of NASCIO’s Top Ten survey in 2006.)