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NFR Security to Hold Web Seminars to Help Government Agencies Meet FISMA Requirements--(Business Wire)-- NFR Security, Inc. -0- *T What: The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a mandate requiring Federal agencies to include a detailed report on the strength of their privacy programs in their annual Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) reports. FISMA was created as Title III to the E-Government Act and requires federal agencies to develop, document and implement an agency-wide information security program. The OMB mandate requires that Executive Branch agencies plan for security, ensure that appropriate officials are assigned security responsibility, periodically review the security controls in their information systems and authorize the systems processing prior to operations. NFR Security, the leader in Real-Time Threat Protection(TM), and CSCI, a highly specialized systems integration and services firm, are sponsoring the first in a series of FISMA Web Seminars designed to help government agencies better understand how their organizations can become FISMA compliant. Mark Williamson, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and co-founder of Conquest Security, will speak on how agencies can better use the resources and standards available to meet FISMA requirements and obtain a higher compliancy grading. Who: NFR Security, Inc. CSCI Speaker: Mark Williamson, Conquest Security When: Tuesday, June 21, 2005, 11:00 a.m. ET OR Thursday, June 23, 2005, 2:00 p.m. ET Where: http://www.online-version.com/nfr_security/FISMA2/ *T |
