The Cybersecurity 202: The fallout from FEMA's massive compromise is just beginning
in which government agencies failed to properly manage where sensitive data was secured or who had access to it.
By the time of the 2017 natural disasters, the agency was passing along 20 unnecessary data fields about disaster victims, including the name of their financial institutions and their bank transit numbers. “If you had to retrofit all of the safety things on a modern car onto a ’65 Mustang, it would be a bubble wrap and duct tape sort of exercise and it wouldn’t work very well,” he said. “The same is true for a lot of these legacy systems.”
That sprint included mandating that agencies limit who had access to sensitive data and requiring those people to digitally verify their identities. But it didn't fix the inherent vulnerabilities created by outdated technology, he said. in 2017, which provided $500 million for IT upgrades, but that was just “a drop in the bucket” of what’s needed, Scott told me.
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