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Auditors: DHS Should Increase Use of Sensitive Information Received From Private Firms

William P. Dizard III writes on GCN.com:

The Homeland Security Department should work to increase use of sensitive information it receives from private companies about vulnerable assets like utilities, private IT networks, energy production and distribution facilities, and transportation assets, the Government Accountability Office said in a report unveiled today.

The report [.pdf], [en]titled "DHS Should Take Steps to Encourage More Widespread Use of its Program to Protect and Share Critical Infrastructure Information," describes how the department has been carrying out the Critical Infrastructure Information Act.

That law was a response to the frequently repeated fact that more than 85 percent of the essential facilities that terrorists could target are in private hands.

posted by Fergie @ 5/17/2006 04:10:00 PM