(Source: Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP) Federal Legislative Update Senate Introduces Legislation on July 22 Providing Additional Authority for DHS to Supervise Federal Agencies Such as OPM Two data breaches at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) affecting over 20 million Americans led to a bipartisan effort to push for legislation that would provide the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) with new authority to mitigate potential threats to the computer networks of federal agencies. The legislation, titled the Federal Information Security Management Reform Act of 2015 ("FISMA"), would, among other things: Allow DHS to operate intrusion detection and prevention capabilities on...
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