The flurry of cybersecurity legislation enacted by the current Congress left one unfinished piece of business that Sen. Gary Peters says will be first in line in the next Congress: updating the federal government’s cybersecurity efforts.
“The one area we were not able to finish was FISMA, and that is a top priority for me,” Peters, D-Mich., the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said in an interview Wednesday. “In the first markup [in the next session] I plan to put FISMA on that markup.”
FISMA stands for Federal Information Security Modernization Act, which assigns responsibilities to federal agencies, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the Office of Management and Budget, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, in safeguarding government computer networks. The law was last updated in 2014.
