Case 8-13 Opm

A root-cause analysis of the security breach revealed multi-factorial issues at the technical, individual, group, and organizational levels. At the technical level, the applications and web-tools

Many people are beginning to realize how serious the ISIS and their online schemes are. “The United States of America is under attack,” warned Rep. Elijah Cummings during a House Oversight and Government Affairs Committee hearing in June of 2015. (Law Street) Katherine Archueta is the director of OPM. She faced a lot criticism at the hearing for not updating the databases, because she was already aware of the security issues. An audit was carried out on OPM on November of 2014, not long before the breach. It revealed that several databases still did not meet federal security standards. It was known that many of the databases

Information technology can be very costly, and it is imperative for organizations not to overspend when it comes to their IT budget. However, it is vital for organizations to understand the risks associated with information technology. As we saw in the TJX case, TJX’s senior management did not update their systems and had very little IT knowledge. This led to multiple risks involving several security breaches which could have been contained by improving their information systems more efficiently. It is not just developing and implementing information technology; it is also understanding risks and formulating solutions to issues associated with IT. In Adventures of an IT Leader, Barton faced many challenges when it came to the budget of IVK. He assumed full responsibility for all the risks associated with the technology used and the IT budget. When the power shut off at IVK, Barton was faced with many challenges including possible customer records compromised, IVK’s systems infected, and deciphering solutions to secure the system. Barton suggested that IVK shut down operations to build a new and secure system to ensure IVK’s systems could identify where the infection originated and repairing the system for future

* Meet with Terry Gibson and purchasing manager to decide whether or not to take actions on outsourcing

Title III of the E-Government Act, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) requires each federal agency to develop, document, and implement an agency-wide program to provide information security for the information and systems that support the operations and assets of the agency, including those provided or managed by another agency, contractor, or other sources (Staff, 2016). FISMA was amended by The Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014. The amendment was established to modernize the Federal security practices to focus on security concerns. The results of these changes will strengthen continuous monitoring, continue focusing on agency compliance, and report on issues caused by security incidents. FISMA, Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and the Information Technology Management Reform Act of 1996 (Clinger-Cohen Act), clearly highlights the plans for a cost-effective security program. In support of and reinforcing this legislation, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) through Circular A-130, “Managing Federal Information as a Strategic Resource,”1 requires executive agencies within the federal government to:

This assignment was prepared for Professor Foss’ ISSC 361 Information Assurance course, and was turned in on August 7th, 2016. In this assignment, a recent cyberattack on the OPM from last year is examined.

The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced on June 4th, 2015 that hackers had intruded into its network to exfiltrate the personnel records of 4.2 million current and former government employees (Bisson). On June 23rd, FBI Director James Corney confirmed the OPM breach was much worse than originally thought, in total 21.5 million people were compromised. Information Security experts warn that this breach could threaten the United States’ national security for generations. It is important to study how the breach occurred to prevent similar ones in the future.

The data breaches at Target, Home Depot are reminders to CIOs of how deadly social engineering can be. CIO’s and CSO’s realize the dangers of security problems on a massive scale. These are some deliberate security breaches that happen when an employee shares a password or loses a mobile device. An employee might access a website at work that loads malware onto his PC, which then spreads throughout the corporate network. In other cases, security breaches occur when a disgruntled employee leaves the company and takes with him valuable intellectual property that belongs to the company.

The quota system remained in place until 1999 and significantly increased the backlog of these cases. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which had been created in 1978 to partially replace the CSC, privatized their Office of Federal Investigations (about 770 employees) resulting in the creation of the US Investigations Services (USIS) in 1996 under an Employee Stock Ownership Plan. USIS was awarded a 3-year non-competitive contract to conduct investigations for OPM. The 1997 report of “The Commission on Protecting and Reducing Government Secrecy” recommended a full range of changes to the security clearance process to make it more efficient and to address transparency and due process

Over the last few years the amount of security breaches that have been reported have had one factor that has been prevalent in majority of the attacks. That factor is the employee’s and how they are manipulated into giving the intruder/hacker exactly what they needed without realizing it. The use of social engineering in data breaches and fraud has been steadily increasing over the years. Confidentiality, integrity, and availability the three components of the CIA triad in network security can all be compromised by the risk of social engineering.

Cyber security is critical in any business or organization. The purpose for cyber security is in the name, “security”. All types of information that are important or ment to be secured requires cyber security to defend it. For example if you submitted personal information online regarding maybe your address or even perhaps your social security number, you would not want that information falling into the wrong hands. So I will begin to talk about a cyberattack and how it was executed. The OPM data breach ( office of personal management ). 21 million current and former federal employees had their personal and highly sensitive private information stolen in a massive data breach that highly affected

The discovery of OPM’s June 2015 security breach we learnt actually was detected that hackers infiltrated OPM’s computer system in April of 2014 by “stealing credentials and planting malware and creating a backdoor for exfiltration” (Sean Lyngaas). Data affected included

Network intrusion may be a difficult task to complete with advances in network security, but with evolving technology and the availability of information on the Internet, network intrusion prevention may be the harder task. It was mentioned above that one must get to know his enemy before the attack; the same can be said if the roles are switched and one is on the defense. To obtain and maintain network security, motives for network intrusion must be analyzed. Take for example the attack that was conducted on the Office of Personnel Management which acts as the United States Government 's Human Resources department. On June 4th, 2015, the Office of Personnel Management disclosed a statement saying “Personnel data, including personally

To start, there were significant issues regarding the OPM and its solutions to deficiencies found during their regular audits. These issues show a lack of Information Security management and maintenance. This is made clear in an article by ABC News that at the time of the Senate hearings regarding the OPM breach, “Only a few of the inspector general’s 29 recommendations for improvement have since been implemented” (“OPM chief ‘angry’ over hack,” 2015). Proper management of security audit findings must be implemented by the OPM, and the appropriate resources should be put in place to plan how to implement the recommendations as well as implement and maintain. Accountability should be put in place for the OPM management and the security and

1) How did Preston Lansing Probably ‘rig’ the standard costs-are the standards set too high or too low? Explain