From: GCN
By Sean Lyngaas
The cyberattack that exposed the personally identifiable information of up to 4 million current and former federal employees has left the Office of Personnel Management reeling and security experts pondering how the damage might have been lessened.
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But to Morgan Wright, a consultant who has worked cybersecurity projects for DHS and the Justice Department, those efforts are insufficient. Einstein “pretty much failed, unless you consider the five months it took to discover the intrusion ‘real-time,'” he said. Multiple reports have said that the hackers hit OPM in December but the agency did not detect the intrusion until April.
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