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INFORMATION SECURITY: OPM Has Improved Controls, but Further Efforts Are Needed

Posted on August 3, 2017 by Dissent

INFORMATION SECURITY: OPM Has Improved Controls, but Further Efforts Are Needed
GAO-17-614: Published: Aug 3, 2017. Publicly Released: Aug 3, 2017.

What GAO Found

Since the 2015 data breaches, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has taken actions to prevent, mitigate, and respond to data breaches involving sensitive personal and background investigation information, but actions are not complete. OPM implemented or made progress towards implementing 19 recommendations made by the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) to bolster OPM’s information security practices and controls in the wake of the 2015 breaches. GAO determined that the agency completed actions for 11 of the recommendations and took actions for the remaining 8, with actions for 4 of these 8 requiring further improvement (see table). In addition, OPM did not consistently update completion dates for outstanding recommendations and did not validate corrective actions taken to ensure that the actions effectively addressed the recommendations.

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