Information Security News: IG: DHS has problems with top secret data

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http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153292-1.html

By Alice Lipowicz
FCW.com
July 28, 2008

The Homeland Security Department still has problems handling classified 
top secret intelligence information, according to a new report from the 
department's Office of the Inspector General.

Overall, DHS' Office of Intelligence and Analysis has made progress in 
managing intelligence systems departmentwide, and in establishing an 
information technology security program for those systems, to meet 
Federal Information Security Management Act requirements, the report 
said.

However, there are still unaddressed problems, the IG concluded. A 
four-page copy of the report, which has been redacted for public 
release, is posted on the inspector general's Web site.

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