US agencies still get low cybersecurity grades

Source: Network World

The U.S. departments of Defense and State received F grades, and Homeland Security a D, in the latest scorecard measuring their information security measures.

The Department of Homeland Security's 2006 grade improved slightly from 2005, when it received an F. Representative Tom Davis, a Virginia Republican, said it was "troubling" that three of the main agencies fighting terrorism received low grades again in their compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act. FISMA, passed in 2002, evaluates agency cybersecurity efforts in a number of areas.

Asked whether the U.S. public should be confident those three agencies are protecting against cyber terrorism, Davis said, "It doesn't give me a lot of confidence."

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