Return to Article: Agencies, Congress urged to upgrade computer security planning
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Congressmen and senior management also must remember you cannot just purchase security software to protect their Information Technology systems. They have to practice security day in and day out and that includes not outsourcing the IT work. Outsourcing jobs can result in work being done by members of foreign countries. For example, the Army contracted out the development of a new system to CSC. The development is years behind the delivery schedule and now it is coming out that CSC has further outsourced some of the work to workers in India and Pakistan. This is a mission critical Army system that controls very valuable supply information and there will be no control over who has access to this information or who the information is sold to. If this type of action is not a detrimental security risk to our national security then I do not know what is. When is the senior management and Congressmen going to start realizing that security is everyday and that all of the decisions they make are putting this country at risk.
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