Auditor: EPA's Not Securing Its Systems or Keeping Tabs on Contractors

NextGov: The Environmental Protection Agency has historically failed to secure its networks and data against hackers or to ensure contractors that manage EPA data are following the agency’s information security requirements, according to an auditor’s report released Tuesday.

The report from EPA’s inspector general listed susceptibility to cyber threats as one of the agency’s top management challenges in 2018.

The EPA has improved its information security in response to the 2015 Office of Personnel Management data breach and a parade of private-sector breaches but is still falling far short of where it should be, the inspector general found.

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