About FISMA?

The Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA), FISMA imposes a mandatory set of processes that must be followed for all information systems used or operated by a U.S. federal government agency or by a contractor or other organization on behalf of a federal agency. These processes must follow a combination of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) documents, the special publications SP-800 series issued by NIST, and other legislation pertinent to federal information systems, such as the Privacy Act of 1974 and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act. However, following these mandates only results in “compliance” and not “security”.^{[citation needed]}