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Under that guidance, agencies are no longer required to report on 2,000 facilities. Under the new definition, these smaller facilities no longer have to report metrics, creating a cybersecurity risk OMB officials in 2016 specifically identified.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSince each physical location represents a potential access point to an agency\u2019s interconnection with other internal and external systems and networks, each location also poses a risk as a point of potential attack,\u201d GAO officials wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The GAO added, \u201cBecause of OMB\u2019s decision to remove these types of data centers from DCOI reporting, agencies may lose track of the security vulnerabilities that these facilities present due to the consequent reduction in overall visibility and oversight into all data centers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To mitigate the risk, the GAO recommended that OMB required agencies to submit reporting data on those facilities no longer classified as data centers. According to the GAO report, OMB didn\u2019t agree or disagree with the recommendations and argued that the smaller facilities don\u2019t pose a higher cybersecurity risk, even adding the GAO not reference cybersecurity in its report. Cybersecurity, OMB argued, wasn\u2019t the aim of the DCOI policy and there are several other policies and laws that govern cybersecurity issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOMB took issue with the report\u2019s findings that the removal of facilities from DCOI oversight posed cybersecurity-related risks represented by those facilities,\u201d the GAO report said. \u201cOMB\u2019s comments further recommended that we remove references to cybersecurity from our report\u2019s title and from the body of the report.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is just the latest development in the debate over the DCOI policy\u2019s revision of what a data center is. Reps. 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