A recent inspector general report found that while the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission had made progress in implementing requirements under the 2014 Federal Information Security Modernization Act, a lack of dedicated resources within the commission still remain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe attributed many of the issues that we identified to the CPSC\u2019s decision to not dedicate the resources necessary to support the implementation of planned activities,\u201d the IG report said. \u201cThe information technology challenges currently facing the CPSC are particularly relevant as the agency continues to deal with the implementation of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act, specifically with the CPSIA\u2019s impacts on the agency\u2019s IT operations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Among the 13 identified issues were a lack of identified contingency plans in the event of a network disruption, lack of enforcement of personal identity verification, inadequately managed privileged user accounts, a lack of strategy for identity access management and implementation of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s CDM program, and poorly defined training requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Of the 13 issues, the IG report cited insufficient resources as a direct cause for five and noted that increased resource investment would be needed to resolve one more. Two of the causes were redacted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The report offered a total of 46 solutions to the 13 identified problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Agency management concurred with all of the report\u2019s findings and offered solutions to resolve the identified problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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