"FISMA requires Federal agencies to take a risk-based, cost-effective approach to securing their information and systems, identifying and resolving current IT security weaknesses and risks, as well as protecting against future vulnerability and threats." The importance of FISMA in the overall Electronic Government Act cannot be overstated. In fact, unless agencies demonstrate that they can meet the IT security criteria, they cannot receive a positive status on the annual report card regardless of their performance against other E-Gov Act criteria. Thus agencies and related organizations cannot turn a blind eye to the security of their information and information systems.
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