By a vote of 416 to 0, the House passed on April 16 the Federal Information Security Amendments Act of 2013, which updates the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002. The Federal Information Security Amendments Act, H.R. 1163, would require federal agencies to continuously monitor their IT systems for cyberthreats and implement regular threat assessments. “This bipartisan legislation will address the shortcomings of FISMA by incorporating recent technological innovations, and enhance and strengthen the current framework that protects federal information technology systems,” said the bill’s chief sponsor, Rep. Although most federal agencies have chief information security officers to coordinate IT security activities, the new FISMA legislation would require them to have CISOs to develop, implement and oversee agencywide IT security programs.