A number of federal employees and contractors on IRS’s cyber incident response team don’t have specialized training required by law, a recent audit by Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration ...

Microsoft announced on May 3 that its Office 365 cloud-hosted app bundle has received the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) nod from the Broadcasting Board of Governors. FISMA ...

Invoking cybersecurity threats posed by foreign adversaries, the House Oversight and Reform Committee unanimously approved efforts to create a program for training the government’s contracting ...

In a true "people in glass houses…" turn around, details have emerged indicating that Microsoft's government cloud offerings themselves aren't FISMA-certified, the same accusation the software ...

Three bills now move to the Senate, where Homeland Security Chairman Carper will determine that chamber's strategy for cyber legislation. Three bills now move to the Senate, where Homeland Security ...

There's one thing that seems to be lost in the latest debate between Microsoft and Google, which erupted on April 11 over FISMA-certification of their cloud-hosted app offerings. Neither company has ...

Is Google Apps for Government certified under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA)? The question has suddenly become the newest battleground for Google and Microsoft in their race ...

The typical federal agency still has familiar deficiencies in its information security practices, according to a Government Accountability Office survey of implementation of one of the government’s ...

NORMAN, Okla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Power Costs, Inc., (PCI) is pleased to announce its successful completion of the Service Organization Controls 1 Type II (SOC 1 Type II) and Service Organization ...

In a blog post last week, Eran Feigenbaum, director of security with Google Enterprise, said that the GSA had certified Google Apps Premier Edition under FISMA in July 2010. He said that Google Apps ...

Microsoft announced on Wednesday that its cloud-based suite of applications has passed muster for government use per Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) standards. Microsoft's Business ...