Administration will review FISMA metrics

The Office of Management and Budget has said it will review the security metrics agencies use to report their compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act and it may develop new metrics to improve the assurance of information security at agencies. In general, reports from agencies' chief information officers and inspectors general during fiscal 2008 showed increased compliance with FISMA's information security requirements, according to the a report. However, OMB also said "it could be time to modify the metrics to improve the assurance of security."

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