About 6 percent of the Interior Department's computer systems remain disconnected from the Internet, 11 months after a federal judge ordered a departmentwide shutdown citing security concerns, according to a Nov. 1 Interior report. . .
About 6 percent of the Interior Department's computer systems remain disconnected from the Internet, 11 months after a federal judge ordered a departmentwide shutdown citing security concerns, according to a Nov. 1 Interior report.

Most of the systems support the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of the Special Trustee, agencies that rely on information technology to fulfill the department's trust fund duties.

"The relative security and integrity of DOI's computer systems is gradually improving," Interior officials said in their 11th status report to the court, one in a series of updates required by U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth.

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