Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 200 includes minimum security requirements for federal computer systems in a number of key areas. FIPS 200 is the final of three publications called for from NIST within the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) The goal of FISMA is to establish risk-based security practices for applying appropriate security controls to federal agencies various systems. Agencies must comply with the newly released standard by March 2007, according to Government Computer News (GCN)”]
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