The 15th version of FITARA debuts a new category for federal cybersecurity progress, while also reconfiguring the current IT security metric. The House Oversight and Reform Committee used agency inspectors general assessments based on the committee’s determined weighted average instead of the traditional average.
Add to this change Federal Chief Information Security Officer Chris DeRusha is the key witness at today’s hearing, it’s clear where and what Reps. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chairman of the subcommittee on government operations and co-author of FITARA, and Jody Hice (R-Ga.), the subcommittee’s ranking member, are focusing on…
The big change is the committee modified the scoring to give credit to agencies who provided justifications for their future data center closures. This information came from a letter the committee wrote to agencies in July seeking details around number of data centers still operating and whether they believe they can close more data centers in the future.
“Agencies with no future data center closures beyond October 2022 who replied to the [committee’s] inquiry received an A; agencies with planned closures beyond fiscal 2022 who replied to the inquiry and provided a justification for closures received a B. All agencies replied to the inquiry; had they not, C and F grades would be been received,” the committee wrote in the scorecard…
