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OMB reports modest FISMA improvements for agencies

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Federal agencies are improving in their efforts to secure the nation’s information technology framework — but only moderately so, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s fiscal 2006 report.Each year OMB must report to Congress how well agencies are meeting the security standards set forth in the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002. In fiscal 2006, agencies spent $5.5 billion to secure the government’s total IT investment of approximately $63 billion, OMB said.The latest FISMA report shows modest improvement and progress in meeting several annual performance measures. The number of agencies reporting having certified and accredited IT systems rose from 85 percent to 88 percent, and there was a 3 percent increase in the number of federal IT systems, from 10,289 in fiscal 2005 to 10,595 last year.

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