Emerging Cybersecurity Issues Threaten Federal
Information Systems
| Title: | Emerging Cybersecurity Issues Threaten Federal
Information Systems (ID: CSD4119) | | Author(s): | GAO | | Topics: | Cybersecurity, Phishing, Security Risk Assessment and Analysis, Spam, Spyware or Adware | | Origin: | Community Contributions (2005) | | Type: | Articles, Papers, and Reports | | Abstract: | Federal agencies are facing a set of emerging cybersecurity threats that are the result of increasingly sophisticated methods of attack and the blending of once distinct types of attack into more complex and damaging forms. Examples of these threats include spam (unsolicited commercial e-mail), phishing (fraudulent messages to obtain personal or sensitive data), and spyware (software that monitors user activity without user knowledge or consent). To address these issues, GAO was asked to determine (1) the potential risks to federal systems from these emerging cybersecurity threats, (2) the federal agencies' perceptions of risk and their actions to mitigate them, (3) federal and private-sector actions to address the threats on a national level, and (4) governmentwide challenges to protecting federal systems from these threats. | | View this resource: | |
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