Unmonitored networks put US nuclear arsenal at risk, GAO finds
https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2023/05/unmonitored-networks-put-us-nuclear-arsenal-risk-gao-finds/386910/
GAO’s report — released on May 24 — reviewed the effectiveness of Energy’s Insider Threat Program, one of the department’s risk mitigation initiatives that is designed “to further protect against insider threats from employees, contractors and trusted visitors.” The study was requested in a House report accompanying the fiscal year 2022 National Defense Authorization Act.
Despite the program being established in 2014, GAO said that multiple independent assessments conducted in the intervening years found that Energy “has not implemented seven required measures for its Insider Threat Program, even after independent reviewers made nearly 50 findings and recommendations to help DOE fully implement its program.”
Four of these “unmet minimum standards” were previously identified in a March 2022 memo sent from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to the Energy Secretary, while the remaining three “were found to be unmet through DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments’ review of DOE’s Insider Threat Program in 2021.”
GAO identified continuing concerns — first conveyed by ODNI — about Energy’s efforts related to “monitoring user activity on all classified networks.” The report noted that “minimum standards require that insider threat programs include the technical capability to monitor user activity on all classified networks,” but that the department’s Insider Threat Analysis and Referral Center “has not met full user activity monitoring coverage requirements on all classified networks.”
For a while I was gettin’ a distinct 1936’s vibe but now the frequency seems to be shifting to a higher frequency 1938’s vibe.
The U.S. Department of Energy......... These are the same clowns who want to make home use of natural gas much more expensive. Via their crazy new regulations for new gas stoves and new heating units.
Because basically, these Department of Energy Federales sit on their asses all day (work from home) and have to make themselves look busy and useful a few times a decade.
On the bright side, a lot of Energy Department Bureaucrats won’t need electricity or gas, ... they’ll Glow In The Dark well enough to read their MSM newspapers.
I think you are missing the important part of this story....Trump was just going to give them all the classified nuclear documents, aren’t you paying attention to the news? (Sarc tag should not be necessary)
This is what happens whey you have a data server directly connected to the internet. And it should be illegal for government entities to do so. All Data should sit on an isolated server. Sending out data should require a human to physically transfer to another computer in which it can then be sent out and then removed from that computer.
Can we possibly do a better job of protecting our data?
He He, and they can’t even pay the ransom because that would break sanctions, which i think is the point.