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Dec
26

DHS IT Security Suffers from Noncompliance, Inspector General Audit Finds

From: HSToday.US

By: Anthony Kimery, Editor-in-Chief

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG) disclosed in a new 62-page audit report that DHS “has made progress to improve its information security program, but noncompliance by several DHS component agencies is undermining that effort.”

OIG analysts’ Evaluation of DHS’ Information Security Program for Fiscal Year 2014 “cited a shift to risk-based management of information technology (IT) security and implementation of an agency-wide performance plan as positive developments.  However, the OIG raised concerns over a lack of compliance by components and urged DHS leadership to strengthen its oversight and enforcement of existing security policies.”

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