From: Federal Times
By AARON BOYD
Congress passed the 2014 update to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) last week as the legislative session came to a close. The new law looks to streamline security reporting, increase information sharing on breaches and codify which agencies are responsible for assessing the government’s security posture.
“Since the passage of FISMA, agencies have made progress in setting up consistent information security programs across government. Unfortunately, however, they have not kept up with the cyber threat that has grown even faster and larger than Congress could have foreseen in 2002,” Sen. Tom Carper, D-Del., wrote in the summary report for the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. The 2014 update moves to “clarify the roles of the OMB and DHS; reduce paperwork and speed up the move toward real-time security; and make important improvements to the way federal data breaches are handled.”
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