Critique
Security experts Bruce Brody, a former federal chief information security officer, and Alan Paller, director of research for the SANS Institute – have described FISMA as a well-intentioned but fundamentally flawed tool, and argued that the compliance and reporting methodology mandated by FISMA measures security planning rather than measuring information security. Past federal chief technology officer Keith Rhodes said that FISMA can and has helped government system security but that implementation is everything, and if security people view FISMA as just a checklist, nothing is going to get done.
Read more about this topic: Federal Information Security Management Act Of 2002
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