What is FISMA?

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) is part of the E-Government Act, which became a law in December 2002.  Title III of the E-Government Act is FISMA.  FISMA basically requires all government agencies to perform a Risk Based methodology on all information systems run by agencies and their contractors. Read more

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