The December 15th hearing of the House of Representatives Subcommittee on Government Operations may put cybersecurity issues at the top of the agenda. scorecard.
The scorecard evaluates the 24 largest federal agencies for improvement in various categories related to IT and cybersecurity. Grades are determined by subcommittee leaders with input from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
The witness list for the 9:00 am hearing includes Federal Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) Chris DeRusha.
He will be joined by Jason Gray, who earlier this year became the US Agency for International Development’s Chief Information Officer (CIO) after a long stint as CIO at the Department of Education.
Also testifying are Carol Harris and Jennifer Franks, GAO’s directors of information technology and cybersecurity.
at the subcommittee hearing in late July to confirm the results of the 14th In the edition of the FITARA Scorecard, members on both sides of the aisle complained that they lacked enough data to determine how federal agencies were performing on the front lines of cybersecurity.
Some board members accused the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of failing in its statutory mandate to provide key agency-specific cybersecurity data derived from compliance with the Federal Information Systems Management Act (FISMA). And subcommittee chair Jerry Connolly, D-Va, criticized the Biden administration for not producing timely agency-level security data.
Rep. Connolly said in July that he looked forward to getting better cybersecurity data, and GAO Rep. Harris said her agency is working with OMB to do the same. OMB indicated that it is still working to determine what data can be made public without compromising agency security. The subcommittee chairman said he hopes the cyber-related data shortage won’t last long.
