Minor deficiencies add up to significant weaknesses at SSA

Federal Times: The Social Security Administration is making progress toward better cybersecurity within the agency’s systems but a combination of weaknesses identified in the annual FISMA report add up to significant vulnerabilities.

Auditing firm Grant Thornton LLP tested SSA’s systems across 11 cybersecurity metrics established by the Department of Homeland Security. The analysis showed that SSA’s policies and implementation were “generally consistent” with FISMA, OMB and NIST guidelines, though significant weaknesses were discovered among eight of those metrics.

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