The effectiveness of the Federal Information Security Management Act, intended to improve data security across the federal government, will be questioned at a Senate hearing Wednesday.
The FBI has ignored requests to explain its lack of cooperation with the Government Accountability Office, say staffers with the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee.
The window for advancing a comprehensive federal data security bill is closing, but stakeholders are holding out hope that narrowly crafted proposals to improve government information security compliance and fight cybercrime might still get traction this spring.
