Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Government shutdown could test IT security at federal agencies

Computerworld is reporting that a government shutdown that lasts more than a few days could test the ability of federal agencies to protect their information systems against security threats. According to a report, over the past few day several agencies, including the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Social Security Administration, have released contingency plans showing that they will have to heavily scale down their IT teams to maintain, manage and protect IT infrastructure during a a shutdown.

Full story:  Shutdown could test IT security at federal agencies (computerworld.com)

See also:  How the federal government doubled its amount of data centers in just 2 years

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