The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation was responsible for 10 of 16 major information security incidents in FY2016, according to the annual report of the Office of Management and Budget.
The FDIC incidents, linked to a flaw in their system that permitted personally identifiable information to be downloaded to removable media, caused big headaches for tech officials at the agency when they were uncovered by Congress in May 2016.
Overall, however, the outlook appears to be improving for agencies’ implementation of information security measures, including the use of dual-factor authentication for employee logins, the adoption of the Einstein 3A security screen by agencies (now said to cover 93 percent of federal employees), and the identification and protection of high value assets.
