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Homeland Security

Bipartisan Senate Report Finds Federal Agencies Slow To Fix Cybersecurity Risks

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, August 4th, 2021

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Bipartisan Senate Report Finds Federal Agencies Slow To Fix Cybersecurity Risks

Sen. Rob Portman (R-Ohio).

Of eight federal agencies examined two years ago for their cybersecurity posture, seven still have made little progress and many of the issues have existed for the past decade, says a bipartisan report issued this week by the staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. “This report shows a sustained failure to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities at our federal agencies, a failure that leaves national security and sensitive personal information open to theft and damage by increasingly sophisticated…

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