HOMELAND INSECURITY: TSA Flunks Key Safety Categories, Incapable of Responding to Cyber Attacks

Not exactly what you wanted to hear, right?

According to a report from Just The News, the Transportation Security Administration, the agency in charge of guaranteeing the safety of plane and train travelers, has flunked key preparedness tests when it comes to protecting vulnerable systems from cyber security attacks.

So how many categories did they flunk? 8 out of 10!

From Just The News:

The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) was found deficient in 8 of 10 categories, incapable of ensuring “it will be able to quickly detect, respond to, and recover from a cyberattack,” Homeland’s inspector general declared in a report released this week ahead of one of the busiest travel weekends of the year with the Labor Day holiday.

In 2015, in response to increasing cyber threats, the Office of Management and Budget created the High Value Asset (HVA) security initiative tasking federal agencies with identifying their most important assets. These assets include “federal information systems, information, and data for which unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction could cause a significant impact to national security interests, foreign relations, the economy, safety, and the security of the American people.”

According to Homeland’s inspector general, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) subsequently developed guidelines to ensure the government’s information systems were more secure and achieved “effective risk management.”

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The watchdog’s investigation concluded that TSA  “did not implement effective controls to protect the sensitive information processed by the selected HVA system.” The IG noted that this leaves the agency particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks which could undermine its functions and endanger our security.

Read the full report over at Just The News:

Key Homeland Security agency deemed ill equipped to fight fast-growing homeland threat https://t.co/W3voQDcmQF

— Just the News (@JustTheNews) August 30, 2023

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