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Shavlik Simplifies and Automates Agency Preparation for Upcoming FDCC and FISMA Reporting Requirements

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Shavlik Technologies, LLC, the market leader in delivering software solutions that rapidly accelerate and continuously improve security and compliance readiness, has enhanced its solution suite to support recently released US Federal government standards and ensure its customers can easily prove compliance with new FISMA reporting requirements.

The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 mandates yearly audits of government agency IT controls. FISMA recently changed its reporting requirements to now include proof of compliance with specific system configurations as defined by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and referred to as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, or FDCC. By March 31, agencies must submit a technical report to NIST and OMB demonstrating the status of their implementations.

The Shavlik Security Suite provides a sustainable solution for agencies to generate and distribute approved system baseline configurations and security policies, and then prove compliance with those policies. Shavlik has a FDCC template policy for its customers that can be downloaded from the Shavlik web site and used to compare existing policies and configurations against the NIST standards.

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