Mobile devices have forced a radical shift in the way organizations service their customers. Financial institutions are no exception to the pressure of extending their online services to the mobile channel. By 2015 mobile banking could reach one in five adults in the United States. But the growth in mobile devices has...
Auditors find that the SEC's IT office documented and incorporated National Institute of Standards and Technology patch requirements in its policies and procedures but that guidance wasn't always followed.
Government auditors gave the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. a sort of a pat on the back of a job well done in plugging holes in its IT security regarding the FDIC's financial systems.
Until the IRS corrects the identified weaknesses, its financial systems and information remain unnecessarily vulnerable to insider threats, including errors or mistakes and fraudulent or malevolent acts by insiders, GAO auditors says.
Nearly 8 of 10 hard drives tested contained tax returns, Social Security numbers, names of children placed in foster homes, passwords and child abuse documentation, an audit by New Jersey authorities reveals.
Homeland Security's U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services IT systems are vulnerable to insider threats, according to a report by the Insider Threat Center at CERT, part of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
The latest Government Accountability Office report reflects the complexity of securing key IT systems: The administration has come far the past two years, but much more work remains to be done to secure effectively the nation's critical information infrastructure.
Consumer fraud trends suggest banking institutions will lead the fight against ID fraud, and international regulators are taking closer looks cross-border payments and money laundering.
It's not enough to recover data after an incident; also essential is restoring the software needed to read the data, as Federal Emergency Management Agency has learned. The inspector general explains it all.
DHS's inspector general expresses a few reservations about the department's enterprise-wide security program and practices for its top secret/sensitive compartmented information intelligence system, but generally called the management of the system effective.
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"Until the missing elements are addressed," the GAO audit said, "there is an increased risk that smart grid implementations will not be secure as otherwise possible."
The General Services Administration needs to strengthen its IT security program in four key areas, the GSA inspector general says in its latest information security audit.
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