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Federal agencies' FISMA grade up slightly

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Federal agencies continued showed slight improvement in 2007 in their ability to protect sensitive data, scoring a "C," up from a "C-minus" in 2006, according to the annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report card released Tuesday.

The report card, released by the office of U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, R-Va., the ranking member of the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee and the author of the FISMA legislation, showed that nine federal agencies scored a failing grade in 2007.

Flunking this year were the Department of Transportation, Department of Labor, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Interior, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Veterans Affairs, the Department of Agriculture and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

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