FISMA II Looks to Institute Performance-Based Metrics

With 40 some pieces of cybersecurity legislation pending before Congress, FISMA II is one that has drawn significant attention from the government-contracting world. While most government agencies and federal contractors learned to check the box and implement whatever measures the act set as standards the first time around, the FISMA II will demand more than that: Instead of being compliance focused, the new bill will introduce performance-based standards and guidelines.

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Lawsuit Brewing Against Popular POS Software Provider and Reseller

With evidence mounting of flagrant abuses of PCI-DSS security standards, two attorneys are on the verge of announcing the official filing of a national lawsuit against one of the hospitality industry’s biggest point-of-sale (POS) technology providers and one of its system resellers. The targets of the upcoming legal action will be Restaurant Data Concepts, Inc. of Warwick, Rhode Island – creators of the POSitouch™ system – and CC Productions of Hoboken, New Jersey, the reseller. POSitouch technology is installed in more than 20,000 restaurants nationwide.

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