US Poor Cybersecurity

January 2007

U.S. government does poorly in cybersecurity.

The Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA) has given the U.S. government D grades on
its cybersecurity efforts in 2006, and renewed its call for the Congress to pass a comprehensive
data protection law in 2007. The CSIA, a trade group representing cybersecurity vendors,
gave the U.S. government D grades in three areas: security of sensitive information, security and
reliability ofcritical infrastructure, and federal government information assurance. In addition to a
comprehensive data protection bill, CSIA called for the U.S. government to strengthen the power
of agency chief information officers and called on agencies to increase testing of cybersecurity controls.
Report: https://www.csialliance.org/resources/pdfs/CSIA_06Report_07A genda_US_Govt.pdf
Source: http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/01/31/HNlowcybergrades_1 .html