FISMA at Year 10: How To Ensure Continued Information Security Management at the Federal, State and Local Level

State government, local government, and education institutions alike are prime targets for cyber criminals in search of highly valuable taxpayer and student data. Gain critical insights into this global threat landscape and understand how to safeguard organizations like yours from becoming the next breach headline.

Government agencies are increasingly moving to the cloud. And SaaS is helping them quickly get apps running at typically lower costs, and within a secure, high performance and scalable environment.

State health departments are swamped with their responses to COVID-19 and the recent monkeypox outbreak, making it difficult to map out data modernization strategies. But two public health agencies, the Iowa Department of Public Health and Maryland Department of Health, have successfully adopted a "working backwards" approach to strategic development. With the assistance of Amazon Web Services (AWS), these agencies have crafted roadmaps to their future ideal states, complete with goals and metrics to chart the course.

An independent audit committee is a fundamental component of good corporate governance and this is no different in the Public Sector. The audit committee plays a key role in providing independent advice and assurance to the accountable authority to assist them in fulfilling their duties and responsibilities in a number of key areas. These may vary between State and Territory governments and the Australian Government but may include areas such as an entity's financial reporting, internal control systems, systems of risk oversight and risk management and performance reporting.