Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans
With the Chinese hack of employee records underscoring weaknesses in federal computer security, two senior GOP senators say the White House has failed to tell Congress what it’s doing to protect its own networks from intruders. In a letter to President Obama, Sens. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) note that the Executive Office of the President has failed to follow a law called the Federal Information Security Management Act, the roadmap for all executive branch agencies to ensure that they not just implement a cyber security program but report annually on whether it is up to date. The Executive Office of the President has not submitted a review of its own systems to the Office of Management and Budget or to a number of congressional committees with oversight over cyber security for at least three years, the senators wrote. And OMB has not said it received such a review since fiscal year 2008, they wrote. “Recent reports that the Office of Personnel Management suffered multiple significant intrusions, resulting in the exposure of millions of employees’ personal information, only underscore the importance of every federal agency, including the EOP, to take steps to improve its cybersecurity posture,” wrote the senators, […]
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