Critical infrastructure protection : significant challenges in safeguarding government and privately controlled systems from computer-based attacks / statement of Joel C. Willemssen, Managing Director, Information Technology Issues.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Willemssen, Joel C.

Contributor:

United States. General Accounting Office

Series:

Testimony ; GAO-01-1168 T.

Testimony ; GAO-01-1168 T

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer security--Government policy--United States.

Computer security.

Information technology--Security measures--United States.

Information technology.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Security measures--United States.

Information storage and retrieval systems.

Computer security--Government policy.

Information storage and retrieval systems--Security measures.

Information technology--Security measures.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Other Title:

Significant challenges in safeguarding government and privately controlled systems from computer-based attacks

Place of Publication:

[Washington, D.C.] : U.S. General Accounting Office, [2001]

Summary:

Federal agencies, and other public and private groups, rely extensively on computer systems and electronic data. The security of these systems and data is essential to avoiding disruptions in critical operations and preventing data tampering, fraud, and inappropriate disclosure of sensitive information. However, federal computer systems contain weaknesses that continue to put critical operations and assets at risk. In particular, deficiencies exist in entitywide security programs that are critical to agencies' success in ensuring that risks are understood and effective controls are implemented. Many efforts have been undertaken to implement the nationally critical infrastructure protection strategy outlined in Presidential Decision Directive (PDD) 63. However, progress in key areas has been limited. Although outreach efforts by many federal entities to establish cooperative relationships with and among private and other nonfederal entities have raised awareness and prompted information sharing, efforts to perform substantive analyses of sector-wide and cross-sector interdependencies and related vulnerabilities have been limited. A major impediment to implementing the strategy outlined in PDD 63 is the lack of a national plan that clearly spells out the roles and responsibilities of federal and nonfederal entities and defines interim objectives.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed Mar. 31, 2004).

"For release ... September 26, 2001."

Paper version available from: General Accounting Office, 441 G St., NW, Rm. LM, Washington, D.C. 20548.

Includes bibliographical references.

Other Format:

Willemssen, Joel C. Critical infrastructure protection : significant challenges in safeguarding government and privately controlled systems from computer-based attacks

OCLC:

54882974