GAO: 42% of Cybersecurity Recommendations Are Unaddressed

From: FedTech Magazine

Fully 58% of the GAO’s IT-related recommendations have been put into place, compared with 80 percent of its recommendations overall, on average.

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The Government Accountability Office (GAO) says that federal agencies are implementing its IT-related recommendations at a lower rate than other GAO recommendations, on average.

In a Jan. 7 post on the GAO’s WatchBlog, the investigative arm of Congress reported that, since 2010, it has “made around 2,000 recommendations to improve federal cybersecurity, but about 840 of recommendations remain open,” for a completion rate of 58 percent.

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