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GAO SECURITY REPORT GIVES THUMBS DOWN TO U.S. AGENCIES
The General Accounting Office (GAO) this week announced that pervasive weaknesses remain in federal technology systems at the 24 largest government departments and agencies. As in the last two years, the worst problems include poor security management and access controls. The combination of poor security management and weak protections at nearly all agencies leave them more vulnerable to data theft or sabotage, particularly by insiders, according to the report released Tuesday. The audit conducted from Oct. 2001 to Oct. 2002 indicates that some individual agencies improved over last year, but all still have significant information security weaknesses overall--including access controls--that place a broad range of operations and assets, including federal records,
at risk of fraud, misuse and disruption. The GAO recommends agencies tap adequate technical expertise to help them select, implement and maintain controls to protect information systems. It also advises better allocations of agency resources for information security.

*****Think about how much money could be applied to solving these considerable problems if 1. we were not sending BILLIONS of dollars to support Israel and 2. we were not chasing down victimless pot smokers. But that's just this old Curmudgeon's opinion******

posted by An Old Curmudgeon 6:26 AM