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DOE Under Cyber Siege

Susan M. Menke writes on GCN.com:

Inspector General Gregory Friedman hopes to lock down security on the Energy Department's interconnected computer networks, after auditors called 132 security breaches serious enough to report to law enforcement in fiscal 2006 — 22 percent more than in the prior year.

The department's 69 organizations support as many as eight separate intrusion and analysis groups, which do not use a common incident-reporting format and do not always retain crucial information about cyberattacks, the IG said in a report released today. Some sites opt out of monitoring their networks or even disable the sensor equipment.

Energy has found such cyber weaknesses before but "does not specifically require that incidents be reported to law enforcement or counterintelligence officials" [...]

posted by Fergie @ 1/22/2008 03:06:00 PM