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Lawmakers ask agencies for data security update
From: security curmudgeon <jericho () attrition org>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 08:55:25 +0000 (UTC)
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org> http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151741-1.html By Jason Miller FCW.com February 25, 2008 Two high-ranking senators want to know when agencies will fully implement the Bush administrations requirements to protect personally identifiable data. Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), ranking member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committees Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, sent letters to 24 Cabinet agencies Feb. 22 requesting a written timeline for when they will meet all four requirements laid out by the Office of Management and Budget in a June 2006 memo. In the letter, the senators told the agency secretary which of the five requirements the department needs to implement. The lawmakers also asked for status updates or compliance timelines for five other OMB memos dating as far back as 2005 that deal with data security, including designating senior officials in charge of privacy. As the federal government obtains and processes information about individuals in increasingly diverse ways, it is critically important that it ensure the privacy rights of individuals are respected and that personal information is properly secured and protected, the senators wrote. [..] _______________________________________________ Dataloss Mailing List (dataloss () attrition org) http://attrition.org/dataloss Tenable Network Security offers data leakage and compliance monitoring solutions for large and small networks. Scan your network and monitor your traffic to find the data needing protection before it leaks out! http://www.tenablesecurity.com/products/compliance.shtml
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