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Apr
25

NASA needs permanent leadership to improve IT security

Editor’s Note: For a case study of NASA’s leadership in continuous monitoring, see Federal Cybersecurity Best Practices: FISMA Continuous Monitoring.

From: FedScoop

NASA’s risk management and security architecture “will continue to struggle” without a permanent security officer, according to the agency’s inspector general.

By Jeremy Snow

NASA’s lack of a permanent security officer has hurt the agency’s ability to plan and improve its IT, according to an internal watchdog.

“Without a comprehensive information security program plan, we believe NASA will continue to struggle to identify the resources needed to implement requirements for its information security program, including the risk management framework and information security architecture,” Inspector General Paul Martin said in the report released last week.

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