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U.S. Dept. of Energy Cyber Security Slammed

Via UPI.

Cybersecurity at the U.S. Department of Energy, which guards the nation's most important scientific secrets, is hampered by conflicting and overlapping roles.

A report by Energy Inspector General Gregory Friedman says that "as many as eight independent cyber security intrusion and analysis organizations" were at work in the department, reporting to either "program elements" or "facility contractors."

Their "missions and functions we found to be, at least partially, duplicative and not well coordinated," reads the report, released Friday.

The eight organizations lacked "a common incident reporting format and did not always ensure that essential attack-related information needed for investigative or trending purposes was reported or retained," Friedman found.

posted by Fergie @ 1/28/2008 06:26:00 PM