Department of Homeland Security CIO comes under fire

Department of Homeland Security, CIO Scott Charbo, has not been setting a good example and hasn't shown he's serious about fixing his departments vulnerabilities. That, at least, is the position of Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), chairman of the House of Representatives Homeland Security Committee, who says the agency has experienced a continuous flow of cybersecurity flaws under the CIO's tenure. "How can we ask the private sector to better train employees and implement more consistent access controls when DHS allows employees to send classified emails over unclassified networks and contractors to attach unapproved laptops to the network?" He was referring to the Homeland Security department's revelation, as part of an ongoing subcommittee probe into its information security practices, that it experienced 844 security-related "incidents" on its computer systems in 2005 and 2006. Charbo, downplayed the list and said that line items didn't indicate actual penetrations of the system and that they varied widely in the level of severity.  

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