Federal Memo: OMB's New Data Security Measures Post WikiLeaks

Prompted by fallout from the WikiLeaks debacle, the White House Office of Management and Budget has asked all federal agencies and departments handling classified data to shore up efforts to identify untrustworthy and discontented employees. A 14-page memo signed by OMB director Jacob Lew was sent to agency heads earlier this week. The contents of the memo were leaked to NBC News, which posted it online.

The memo, the second sent by the OMB since the latest WikiLeaks brouhaha started last fall, lists dozens of questions that are designed to help government agencies to assess their readiness to deal with insider threats and a broad range of other information security issues.

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