In the agreement Federal CIOs will use 116 security controls for FISMA low certifications and 291 security controls for FISMA high.

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The FISMA standard does not cover top-secret data, which will continue to be treated separately, but instead the other 80% to 90% of government data.

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While the FISMA accreditation did not particularly advance Google's existing security policies, company officials said, it did improve them by bringing them to regular standards of use.

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