Is CyberScope Ready for Prime Time?

Survey: Most Agencies Had Yet to Employ FISMA Reporting Tool

Eric Chabrow, Executive Editor, GovInfoSecurity.com

If you're a federal CIO or CISO, you either love CyberScope or are ignorant about it.

That's the takeaway of a survey published Monday by six IT security vendors on CyberScope, the automated FISMA reporting tool unveiled a year ago by Federal Chief Information Office Vivek Kundra. Major federal departments and agencies are to employ CyberScope by Nov. 15 to report on how they have complied this past year with the requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act, the law that governs cybersecurity in the federal government, according to a memo issued by Kundra and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt in April.

Only 15 percent of the 34 federal chief information and chief information security officers surveyed in July had used CyberScope. Those CIOs and CISOs grave CyberScope a grade of A or B.

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