By Free Republic | Created at 2025-01-17 20:32:37 | Updated at 2025-01-17 23:17:39
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Cybersecurity agency failed to follow its own policy securing a critical system: watchdog says
Just the News ^ | January 16, 2025 11:00pm | Steven Richards
Posted on 01/17/2025 12:23:42 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The lead federal cybersecurity agency previously scrutinized over censorship efforts failed to follow its own guidance to secure a critical system with sensitive data, the Department of Homeland Security’s chief watchdog found.
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, known as CISA, has also faced scrutiny from Republicans for its role in organizing the Election Integrity Partnership—the private group that worked with social media companies to censor content during the 2020 election—effectively outsourcing “misinformation” policing, which critics said ran afoul of the First Amendment.
“The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) did not implement effective controls for the selected High Value Asset (HVA) system per Federal and departmental requirements,” the Department of Homeland Security Inspector General’s office (DHS OIG) concluded.
Guidance issued by CISA itself stresses the importance of protecting HVA systems and recommended federal agencies and other partners to conduct comprehensive security reviews to identify any risks.
"A complete failure"
“I mean, when you get even to the cyber related agencies in the federal government are susceptible to being…to being hacked and things like that, this Biden administration is a complete failure from top to bottom,” Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer told the "Just the News, No Noise" TV show.
The HVA system, CISA says, is “so critical to an organization that the loss or corruption of this information or loss of access to the system would have serious impact to the organization’s ability to perform its mission or conduct business.”
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Fed Bur Agency: Trump bad, spend all resources to assist the FBI in bugging his campaign and workers, his properties, and his wife’s panties. That about sums it up for me.
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