{"id":326,"date":"2015-11-23T21:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/2015\/11\/23\/audit-of-state-cyber-security-reveals-security-flaws-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2015-11-23T21:03:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-23T21:03:00","slug":"audit-of-state-cyber-security-reveals-security-flaws-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/audit-of-state-cyber-security-reveals-security-flaws-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Audit of State Cyber Security Reveals Security Flaws &#038; Recommendations."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s state auditor released a report on the California&#8217;s technology department that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>found 73 of 77 failed to meet state\u00a0cyber security standards<\/li>\n<li>a recently adopted\u00a0state pilot program to beef up cybersecurity compliance was blasted for taking too long &amp; that compliance verification would take 20 years with existing state resources<\/li>\n<li>self certification of agencies lacked enforcement mechanisms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The audit recommends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a mandate that California&#8217;s\u00a0technology department undertake a more rigorous security assessment of the state\u2019s information assets<\/li>\n<li>the state shore up funding for cybersecurity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Legslation was filed in response that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>requires a technology security audit of every agency at least once every 2 years<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.governing.com\/columns\/tech-talk\/gov-states-cybersecurity.html\">Governing |\u00a0States Are Slacking on Cybersecurity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California&#8217;s state auditor released a report on the California&#8217;s technology department that:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>found 73 of 77 failed to meet state\u00a0cyber security standards<\/li>\n<li>a recently adopted\u00a0state pilot program to beef up cybersecurity compliance was blasted for taking too long &amp; that compliance verification would take 20 years with existing state resources<\/li>\n<li>self certification of agencies lacked enforcement mechanisms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The audit recommends:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a mandate that California&#8217;s\u00a0technology department undertake a&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,3,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-data-breach","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-enforcement","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/datasecurity\/wp-datasecurity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}