A House panel approved and sent to the entire House of Representatives legislation to reform the Federal Information Security Management Act, the 11-year-old law that governs IT security in the federal government. The bipartisan Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2013 unanimously passed the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee by a voice vote on March 20. The legislation, if enacted, would usurp the current FISMA law that heavily relies on a check-list approach to IT security that many people in government contend doesn’t truly show how secure agencies’ IT systems are. An agency’s chief information officer could serve simultaneously as CISO; however, the bill would require that information security be the CISO’s main focus.