That is to say, Muslims working for DHS.
B DHS Report: Digital Immigration Records Vulnerable To 'Insider Threat' By Jack Moore ExecutiveGov.com March 1, 2011 The Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services has made progress securing its cyber networks from potential insider threats. However, gaps in security still remain, including one that could allow malicious insiders to tamper with digital immigration records. A far-reaching security audit of USCIS, undertaken by the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University singled out the Transformation program at Immigration and Customs Enforcement as one of the most vulnerable. The findings revealed the department had not taken enough steps to secure the digitized immigration paperwork, which- if tampered with -could grant access to terrorists or other malcontents, Federal News Radio reported. The multimillion-dollar Transformation program, designed to digitize immigration records, has been plagued by work delays that have caused it to run 10 years behind schedule, InformationWeek reported. Despite the over-runs, DHS appears to be leaning heavily on the program "to correct many of the problems resulting from legacy systems," according to InformationWeek. But, the recent IG report may put a new wrinkle in the program. Specifically, the report found while the Transformation program encompassed risk management, it had failed to adequately account for the risk from the insider threat. "USCIS should incorporate comprehensive insider threat risk mitigation requirements into the Transformation effort," the report found. Insider threat risk mitigation in the federal government received a jolt of attention following the revelations that a so-called insider - an allegedly disgruntled Army private - was reported to have leaked classified materials to whistle-blower site WikiLeaks. [ Return to top ] Topic Area: Cybercrime & Cybersecurity [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [email protected]. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [email protected] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [email protected] Unsubscribe: [email protected] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtmlYahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
