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GAO Slams IRS Network Security

Caron Carlson writes on eWeek:

Taxpayer information held by the Internal Revenue Service is at risk of being tampered with or obliterated because of weaknesses in the agency's information security systems, according to the Government Accountability Office.

The GAO found dozens of new security weaknesses in its latest review of the IRS, adding to a list of dozens of other weakness identified earlier but not corrected.

The problems range from a lack of effective network access controls to insufficient logging and monitoring of security incidents.

posted by Fergie @ 3/27/2006 05:49:00 PM