Agencies flunk security review
"It is a disappointing feeling to announce that the executive branch of the federal government has received a failing grade for its computer security efforts," said Horn, chairman of the House Government Reform Committee's Government Efficiency, Financial Management and Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee, at the Nov. 9 hearing during which he released the grades.
The grades are disappointing, even if they help wake up agency managers to the fact that there's a lot of work to be done to secure the systems, said Sallie McDonald, assistant commissioner for information assurance and critical infrastructure protection at the General Services Administration.
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