Information Security: Further Efforts Needed to Fully Implement Statutory Requirements in DOD

Abstract

The Department of Defense (DOD) faces many risks in its use of globally networked computer systems to perform operational missions--such as identifying and tracking enemy targets--and daily management functions--such as paying soldiers and managing supplies. Weaknesses in these systems, if present, could give hackers and other unauthorized users the opportunity to modify, steal, inappropriately disclose, and destroy sensitive military data. GAO was asked, among other things, to discuss DOD's efforts to protect its information systems and networks from cyber attack, focusing on its reported progress in implementing statutory information security requirements.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 24, 2003
Accession Number
AD1158045

Entities

People

  • Robert F. Dacey

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Crime
  • Computer Networks
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Electronic Mail
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • National Governments
  • National Security
  • Operating Systems
  • Organizational Structure
  • Security Personnel
  • Software Development

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Educational Psychology

Technology Areas

  • Cyber