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Federal agencies boost scores in security

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Their grades have not been posted, but government agencies have generally improved their security this year, as measured by compliance to the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, a report issued by the Office of Management and Budget stated on Saturday.

In the report (pdf), the OMB stated that, overall, the government did better in fiscal 2007 with certifying systems and testing security controls and contingency plans than the previous year. The Inspectors General for 22 of the 25 agencies required to comply with FISMA inventoried at least 80 percent of their systems in 2007, compared with 20 agencies that had reached that milestone in 2006. While an improvement over the previous year, only two-thirds of the IGs claimed that their auditing processes were rated "satisfactory" or better.

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