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Cyber

House Oversight Panel Passes FISMA Reform, Supply Chain Security Bills

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022

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House Oversight Panel Passes FISMA Reform, Supply Chain Security Bills

Rep. Carolyn Maloney, chairwoman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee.

The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday unanimously approved two bipartisan bills, one to update the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) to clarify cybersecurity roles and responsibilities within the federal government and emphasize continuous monitoring for threat, and the other to improve training of federal procurement employees to ferret out risks in the supply chain for information and communications technology. The FISMA 2022 (H.R. 6497), which now goes to the House for consideration, would be the first…

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