As required by the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA), the USAID Office of Inspector General, with oversight jurisdiction over the U.S. African Development Foundation (USADF), is initiating an evaluation of USADF’s information security program for fiscal year 2026. This is an annual statutory requirement. Implementing an effective information security program is crucial for protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the Agency’s systems and the information they contain.
The evaluation objective is to determine whether USADF implemented an effective information security program. For this evaluation, an effective information security program is defined as having an overall mature program based on the fiscal year 2026 Inspector General FISMA reporting metrics. These metrics measure how well the agency can identify, protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from digital security threats.