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The FedRAMP Program Management Office is seeking comments on its
draft FedRAMP Authorization Boundary Guidance, Version
2.0, released on July 13, 2021. The public comment period
currently is open and closes on September 13, 2021.
An authorization boundary is defined in the National Institute
of Standards and Technology ( NIST ) Special Publication
( SP ) 800-37,
Risk Management Framework for Information
Systems and Organizations, as all components of an
information system to be authorized for operation by an Authorizing
Official and excludes separately authorized systems to which the
information system is connected. Put simply, an authorization
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FISMA, or the
Federal Information Security Management Act, is a U.S. federal law passed in 2002 that seeks to establish guidelines and cybersecurity standards for government tech infrastructure, and in so doing protect government information and operations. The law was modified in 2014 to put more emphasis on continual monitoring with the passage of the similarly named
Federal Information Security Modernization Act; generally, discussions of FISMA refer to the set of regulations established by both these laws.
Like most federal cybersecurity laws, FISMA constitutes a complex set of rules that are intended to be at least somewhat flexible. While the initial intention of the law was to establish standards that the IT departments for federal agencies would follow, the sprawling nature of the government and its tight interconnection with private contractors means that the FISMA umbrella covers many, many organizations including, maybe, yours.