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Analysis: Failure of FAA system causes widespread cancellations, delays

November 19, 2009 - 5:28pm

J.J. Green
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Cybersecurity Update

The problem appears to be fixed NOW, but this morning a glitch in the FAA computer system triggered cancellations and delays that have impacted flights across the country.

Was it just a computer glitch? Or something more sinister?

National Security Correspondent J.J. Green brings us insight.
Also . . .

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has just issued draft guidance that encourages agencies to create systems to provide them with near real time information for risk assessments on federal IT systems.

GovInfoSecurity.com says that the revised draft encourages the use of automation to provide leaders with that information to allow them to make risk-based decisions about their organization's information systems.

The publication is NIST's Special Publication 800-37: Guide for Applying the Risk Management Framework to Federal Information Systems: A Security Life Cycle Approach. And it says agencies should have a continuous monitoring process.
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