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FISMA forces business leaders to pay attention

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For one of the best examples of the impact of the Federal Information Security Management Act in the past five years, look no further than the State Department’s reaction to a hacker attack from a foreign country in 2006.

Instead of instantly shutting down the affected networks, the department performed a risk analysis and discovered that the hack involved reconnaissance rather than data theft, said Donald Reid, senior coordinator for security infrastructure at State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security.

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