Carper Concerned on Agencies' Cybersecurity Following OMB Report
Senate Homeland Security Committee ranking member Tom Carper, D-Del., expressed concerns Wednesday with the Office of Management and Budget's latest Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) report to Congress, saying in a statement that it "underscores the troubling reality that…
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cyber attacks and intrusions continue to occur at an increasing rate, and agencies need to be better prepared." The OMB report said the number of cybersecurity incidents against federal government networks rose 15 percent during FY 2014 to 70,000, vs. 48,000 reported in FY 2012. The most common threat was the mishandling of documents containing personally identifiable information, rather than distributed denial-of-service attacks or other typical threats to private sector networks, OMB said.