FISMA Certification and Accreditation Handbook

Chapter 23 Improving Your Federal Computer Security Report Card Scores

Topics in this chapter:

Elements of the Report Card

Actions for Improvement

Trends

“Excellent firms don’t believe in excellence—only in constant improvement and constant change.”

—Tom Peters

Introduction

Each year, every agency has the opportunity to improve its annual Federal Computer Security Report Card. Aside from being audited by their own OIG and then by the GAO, ...