From: GovInfoSecurity
Report to Congress Paints Brighter Picture of Fed Cybersecurity
By Eric Chabrow
As the number of cybersecurity incidents increase, departments and agencies are doing a better job of complying with the law that governs IT security in the U.S. federal government, a new report to Congress from the White House says.
In its annual Federal Information Security Management Act report to Congress, the Office of Management and Budget describes how federal agencies did better in implementing security programs in fiscal 2013, which ended last Sept. 30, than they did the previous year.
Beth Cobert, OMB deputy director for management, says the report notes progress federal agencies made in key areas of information security. “OMB continues to work with agencies to fulfill the requirements of FISMA and implementing increasingly resilient information technology security and privacy management programs,” Cobert says in a letter to the chairmen of congressional committees with IT security oversight.
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