...All federal agencies are required to comply with FISMA guidelines for IT systems security. Failure to pass an inspection can result in unfavorable publicity, increased oversight of your agency, computer breaches, and even a reduction in your IT budget. In this white paper, we’ll look at: • What FISMA is and why it was created • Key steps in achieving FISMA compliance • Tools that can help you meet FISMA requirements FISMA provides a set of specific guidelines for federal agencies on how to plan for, budget, implement, and maintain secure systems. These new, stricter security guidelines replaced an expired set of rules under the Government Information Security Reform Act. To achieve FISMA compliance, your agency must: • Plan for security • Ensure that appropriate officials are assigned security responsibility • Periodically review IT security controls • Authorize system processing prior to operations and periodically thereafter. Integrity, which means guarding against improper information modification or destruction, and includes ensuring information nonrepudiation and authenticity; confidentiality which means preserving authorized restrictions on access and disclosure, including means for protecting personal privacy and proprietary information; and availability, which means ensuring timely and reliable access to and use of information. The term national security system means any information system including any telecommunications system used or operated...
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...White Paper Understanding NIST 800‐37 FISMA Requirements Contents Overview ................................................................................................................................. 3 I. The Role of NIST in FISMA Compliance ................................................................................. 3 II. NIST Risk Management Framework for FISMA ..................................................................... 4 III. Application Security and FISMA .......................................................................................... 5 IV. NIST SP 800‐37 and FISMA .................................................................................................. 6 V. How Veracode Can Help ...................................................................................................... 7 VI. NIST SP 800‐37 Tasks & Veracode Solutions ....................................................................... 8 VII. Summary and Conclusions ............................................................................................... 10 About Veracode .................................................................................................................... 11 © 2008 Veracode, Inc. 2 Overview The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 ("FISMA", 44 U.S.C. § 3541, et seq.) is a United States federal law enacted in 2002 as Title III of the E‐...
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...NIST Logo and ITL Banner SEARCH CSRC: ABOUT MISSION CONTACT STAFF SITE MAP CSRC HOME GROUPS PUBLICATIONS DRIVERS FEDERAL REGISTER NOTICES NEWS & EVENTS ARCHIVE FISMA Detailed Overview Risk Management Framework (RMF) RMF Steps / FAQs / Guides Applying the RMF to Federal Information Systems Course Security Categorization Security Controls Security Assessment Authorization and Monitoring Security Configuration Settings Industrial Control System Security Compliance Resources News Events Schedule FAQs - FISMA Project FISMA NEWS {Aug. 20, 2013} -- The FISMA Standard / Publication schedule has been updated. Click here to view updated schedule of FISMA documents. {Apr. 29, 2013} -- Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations has been approved as final. To view the full announcement of document release. {Apr. 29, 2013} -- The FISMA Standard / Publication schedule has been updated. Click here to view updated schedule of FISMA documents. {Jan. 18, 2013} – NIST anticipates the release of Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal information Systems and Organizations (Final Public Draft) on Tuesday, February 5th. The final public comment period will run from February 5th through March 1st. Final publication is expected by the end of April. {Nov. 8, 2012} -- Links to keynote presentations on Emerging Risk Management and Cyber Security...
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...Quiz 6 1. Define an SLA and state why it is required in a risk adverse Organization? A service level agreement (SLA) is a document that identifies an expected level of performance. It identifies the minimum uptime or the maximum downtime. Organizations use SLAs as contracts between a service provider and a customer. An SLA can identify monetary penalties if the terms are not met. If your organization has SLAs with other organizations, these should be included in the risk management review. You should pay special attention to monetary penalties. For example, an SLA could specify a maximum downtime of four hours. After four hours, hourly penalties will start to accrue. You can relate this to the maximum acceptable outage (MAO). 2. Using the user domain, define risks associated with users and explain what can be done to mitigate them? the primary risks associated with the user domain are related to social engineering. Users can be conned and tricked. A social engineer tries to trick a user into giving up information or performing an unsafe action. You combat these risks by raising user awareness. Implement acceptable use policies (AUPs) to ensure users know what they should and should not be doing. Use logon banners to remind users of the AUP. Send out occasional e-mails with security tidbits to keep security in their minds. Use posters in employee areas. 3. Using the workstation domain, define risks associated within that domain and explain what can be done to reduce risks...
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...took place between June 2004 and October 2007, On May 1, 2009, LexisNexis disclosed a data breach to 32,000 customers”. (Kirk, 2009) As many scammers seem to do the thefts set up fake post office boxes, causing an investigation for the USPS. Scammers are usually smart and seem to find a great way to get around the system and began to hack, as far as Aetna case the scammers retrieved the customer’s emails from the website. Could the breach been prevented? After a hack or scam has been done, everyone wants to point a finger at two of the people or person to blame, but in cases like this who can you really blame? Well According to The federal information Security Management Act (FISMA); which is the Federal Information Security Management Act of...
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...Term Paper: Security Regulation Compliance Giancarlos Guerra Strayer University CIS 438 - Information Security Legal Issues Abstract: In this paper I shall provide an overview that will be delivered to senior management of regulatory requirements the agency needs to be aware of, including: i. FISMA; ii. Sarbanes-Oxley Act; iii. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act; iv. PCI DSS; v. HIPAA; vi. Intellectual Property Law. Describe the security methods and controls that need to be implemented in order to ensure compliance with these standards and regulatory requirements. Describe the guidance provided by the Department of Health and Human Services, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and other agencies for ensuring compliance with these standards and regulatory requirements. Term Paper: Security Regulation Compliance Introduction In the day-to-day operations of information security, security professionals often focus the majority of their time dealing with employee access issues, implementing security methods and measures, and other day-to-day tasks. They often neglect legal issues that affect information security. As a result, organizations often violate security-related regulations and often have to pay heavy fines for their non-compliance.” A Chief Information Officer in a government agency should realize the need to educate for senior leadership on some of the primary regulatory requirements, and realize the need to ensure that the employees in the agency...
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...example, law enforcement used one of the Act's new authorities to use high-tech means to identify and locate some of the killers.” ("Justice Information Sharing Department Of Justice"). This Act also extends to law enforcement and foreign intelligence purposes. The purpose of the Act was to enable the government to investigate any potential terrorist more efficiently and effectively. “It expands the authority of the Secretary of the Treasury to regulate the activities of U.S. financial institutions, to combat money laundering.” (“The PATRIOT Act Revisited ,” 2004). As with anything the government passes, there is always the criticism and there is always those who want it changed or banned. Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) was developed in 2002 in response to the fears government networks were not as secure as they wanted. Since government transitioned from mainframe computers to networked computers, Congress became more concerned with the alarming rates of...
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...made is so easy to share information or download songs. It was a necessary act in my opinion. With blogs being such a big thing it also protected against someone claiming information as their own. The next very interesting act is the Federal Information Management Security Act of 2002. The act states that; “The Department of Homeland Security activities will include (but will not be limited to): overseeing the government-wide and agency-specific implementation of and reporting on cyber security policies and guidance; overseeing and assisting government-wide and agency-specific efforts to provide adequate, risk-based and cost-effective cyber security overseeing the agencies' compliance with FISMA and developing analyses for OMB to assist in the development of the FISMA annual report; overseeing the agencies' cyber security operations and incident response and providing appropriate assistance; and annually...
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...telemarketer calls? How many emails have you received saying you’ve won the lottery in London or that the Prince of Nigeria would like to conduct business with you? It is these types of issues that motivated the United States Congress to enact several laws to protect America and its citizens from technological attacks and exploitation. In this paper, I will describe two such acts and discuss the advances in technology that resulted in new ethical issues making each such act necessary. In 2002, the United States Government enacted the Federal Information Security Management Act (44 U.S.C. § 3541, et seq.), or FISMA. FISMA recognizes the significance of information security to the economic and national security interests of the United States and mandates that each federal agency develops documents, and implements an agency wide program to provide information security for that agency ("FISMA Center", 2010). This law was enacted due to the thousands of cyber-attacks of several Federal Agencies by both foreign and domestic hackers which stole untold amounts of information and caused approximately 1.9 billion dollars in damages due to the required shutdown of Government Agencies, such as NASA, for weeks at a time in order to fix the holes in the Agencies’ Information Systems. (Rainer Jr. & Cegielski, 2011). The Do Not Call Act of 2003 (15 U.S.C. § 6101 et. Seq.) was signed into law March 11, 2003 by...
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...to the importance of risk management to our organization, senior management is committed to and supportive of this project to develop a new plan. Scope: This plan as sanctioned by senior management of the DLIS will cover compliance laws and regulations that pertain to our organization. It will identify key roles and responsibilities of individuals and departments within the organization as they pertain to risk management. It will develop a proposed schedule for risk management’s planning process, and finally it will deliver a professional report detailing the information above for any interested parties. Summary of Compliance Laws and Regulations: 1. FISMA: I. FISMA is the Federal Information Security Management act developed to ensure that federal agencies protect their data. II. To be compliant with FISMA we must Develop an agency wide program to provide information security and have annual inspections to determine the effectiveness of our program. 2. COBIT: I. Control Objectives for Information and Related Technology, contains good practices for IT management provided by ISACA. Provides a extensive framework for ensuring your IT is being used to support your organization in the best possible manner. Key Responsible individuals: A. IT manager –planning, budgeting, performance of information systems security. B. Senior Management- Organizational risk as a whole, funding for project. C. Risk Manager – Development and...
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...and in turn US Industries as a company. A qualitative risk assessment finds the following risks for the network expansion: QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS SURVEY CATEGORY PROBABILITY IMPACT RISK LEVEL Loss of Data Availability 100 100 100 From DoS/DDoS Attack Loss of data from 100 100 100 Unauthorized access Loss of data from Malware 50 100 50 Loss of data from Fire/Natural Disaster 10 100 10 Stolen/corrupt data From lack of access Controls and improper Configuration 10 100 10 Noncompliance with FISMA 10 50 5 Project not finished in time 30 100 30 A quantitative assessment shows the following risks and costs involved with the network expansion: QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS SURVEY CATEGORY SLE ARO ALE Loss of Data Availability 100,000 10 1,000,000 From DoS/DDoS Attack Loss of...
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...level access.” There are procedures for creating new user account profiles. HIPPA requires that an Information Security Officer (ISO) must be assigned to the network account profiles. This appointed person(s) is usually the network or system security administrator of the organization. Once this role is assigned, the security administrator can create network profiles and assign the new user to such specified profile. The network profiles are implemented in accordance with least privilege access. This means that data intended for use will only be available to the specified profile. This method protects the privacy of the data during transmission. This process complies with the 4 standard Federal regulatory requirements stated in this policy: FISMA, HIPAA/HITECH, GLBA, and PCI-DSS. Once the network account profiles are created, a new user is created and assigned. To implement a strong access control measure, a unique user identifier must be assigned to the new user account. Before the new user account is activated, the network or security administrator will need to validate the identity of the person receiving the new user account. Individuals should allow anyone to use his or her account. This process complies with the PCI-DSS standard. Proper training will need to be implemented for the individual receiving the new user account. This is done to ensure the awareness of the CIA triad and potential security risks. Proper training associated with the new...
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...During the last hundred years mankind has witnessed and been part of a dynamic evolution. Changes, modifications, and inventions that have occurred have been part of what has enabled humans to communicate in a more immediate manner, this has been particularly ideal in our work environment . Information technology has been an essential part of this process. As there are huge benefits obtained from technology there have also been issues that have derived from it, such as ethical ones. Several acts have been established in order to have the ability to control those pitfalls identified. Mankind has acknowledged that technology is an ideal part of our work lives as well as our personal lives and has been able to identify and establish boundaries within these to ensure the overall protection of one. CHANGE There was a time in which in order to send another person a memo or a letter it was sent by transporting it with a carriage and horse, patiently one would await a response from the other party which could at times take weeks or months depending on how far the other party was. That changed when motorized vehicles were invented, it was now faster to send and receive those responses, and one would still patiently await the other’s response. We then had airplanes a much faster method of transporting our said information. Nowadays, there is no such thing as waiting patiently for a response! We have electronic mail! With which as soon as we hit the “send” button we expect...
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...employees in the company and add additional responsibilities on the CISO and his/her staff. Other laws that affect privacy in the workplace are listed below. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - Primer for business. Children's Internet Protection Act of 2001 (CIPA) Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA) Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act of 1994 (CALEA) - Official CALEA website. Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 (CFAA) law summary. Full text at Cornell Computer Security Act of 1987 - (Superseded by the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Consumer Credit Reporting Reform Act of 1996 (CCRRA) - Modifies the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) Summary Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACTA) of 2003 Fair Credit Reporting Act (Full Text). Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Federal Trade Commission Act (FTCA) Driver's Privacy Protection Act of 1994 . Text of law at Cornell Electronic Communications Privacy Act of 1986 (ECPA) Electronic Freedom of Information Act of 1996 (E-FOIA) Discussion as it related to the Freedom of Information Act. Fair Credit Reporting Act of 1999 (FCRA) Family Education Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA; also know as the Buckley Amendment) Privacy Act of 1974 - including U.S. Department of Justice...
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...Federal Information Security Management Act, 2002 (FISMA) and Electronic Communications Privacy Act, 1986 (ECPA) had advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of the acts. FISMA was created to protect government information, and assets against natural or man-made threats, while the EPCA was created to revise federal wiretapping and electronic eavesdropping. FISMA is responsible for making sure different agencies are working to ensure the security of data in the federal government. The jobs of these agencies varies from keeping risk at or below specified acceptable levels in a low costing timely manner, and they must also review their information technology security programs yearly. These programs must include provisions for identification and resolution of current IT security weaknesses and risks, as well as protection against future vulnerabilities and threats (gtsi.com). In previous years the federal government received poor marks, and poor cyber security grades that were publicized, there is still improvements in security of information systems. EPCA is composed of three other acts, known as the Wiretap Act, the Stored Communications Act, and the Pen-Register Act. Together these acts contain protections that are useful and important. The Wiretap act deals with the stopping of communication before it goes too far, while the Stored Communication act deals with stored communications not being used, and finally...
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