Is it fair to point out the Office of Personnel Management (OMP) continues to fail to plan upgrades to its security?
That’s right, not OPM security upgrades are failing, but OPM is failing to plan for security upgrades. Three years after 21.5 million current and former fed data records were stolen from the OPM.
The inspector general report reads in part:
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While we believe that the Plan is a step in the right direction toward modernizing OPM’s IT environment, it falls short of the requirements outlined in the Appropriations Act. The Plan identifies several modernization-related initiatives and allocates the $11 million amongst these areas, but the Plan does not
identify the full scope of OPM’s modernization effort or contain cost estimates for the individual initiatives or the effort as a whole. All of the other capital budgeting, project planning, and IT security requirements are similarly missing.
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At this rate, hackers are stockpiling gear slow enough to work with OPM systems.
Be careful on eBay and other online sources. No doubt the FBI is monitoring purchases of older computer gear.