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Download or read book Information Security Serious Weaknesses Place Critical Federal Operations And Assets At Risk 161170 U s GAO written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent audit evidence indicates that serious and widespread weaknesses in information security are jeopardizing the government's ability to adequately protect (1) federal assets from fraud and misuse; (2) sensitive information from inappropriate disclosure; and (3) critical operations, including some affecting public safety, from disruption. Significant information security weaknesses were reported in each of the 24 largest federal agencies, with inadequately restricted access to sensitive data being the most commonly cited problem. These weaknesses place critical government operations, such as national defense, tax collection, law enforcement, and benefits payments, as well as the assets associated with these operations, at great risk for fraud, disruption, and inappropriate disclosures. Also, many intrusions or other potentially malicious acts could be occurring but going undetected because agencies have not introduced effective controls to identify suspicious activity in their networks and computer systems. Individual agencies have not done enough to effectively address these problems. Similarly, agency performance in this area is not being adequately managed from a governmentwide perspective, although some important steps have been taken. In GAO's view, what is needed is a coordinated and comprehensive strategy that incorporates the worthwhile efforts already under way and takes advantage of the expanded amount of evidence that has become available in recent years. GAO summarized this report in testimony before Congress; see: Information Security: Strengthened Management Needed to Protect Critical Federal Operations and Assets, by Gene L. Dodaro, Assistant Comptroller General for Accounting and Information Management Issues, before the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs. GAO/T-AIMD-98-312, Sept. 23 (19 pages).

Download or read book Information Security written by United States General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Information Security written by Jean H. Boltz and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the current state of information security (IS) in the fed. gov't. It delineates the serious IS weaknesses that place critical operations and assets at risk and outlines actions needed to further improve security practices in gov't. Focuses on the Dept. of Vets. Affairs and the Social Security Admin., which illustrate the types of risk facing departments and agencies as well as actions required to strengthen security mgmt. Recent efforts by these org's. and others throughout gov't. are encouraging because they signify increasing attention to IS concerns, but additional measures are necessary to develop and maintain an effective IS mgmt. program.

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Download or read book Information Security written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-06 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.

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