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OMB: Security incidents jumped in 2007

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Agencies reported twice as many information technology security incidents in fiscal 2007 compared with the year before. The number of incidents in six categories reached 12,986, compared with 5,146 in 2006, the Office of Management and Budget said. One of those categories, unauthorized access, jumped to 2,321 in 2007 from 706 the year before, OMB said in its report to Congress that was released today. It contains the results of how agencies strengthened information security and privacy protections under the Federal Information Security Management Act.

The increase in unauthorized access is due mainly to reporting required now for all instances where personally identifiable information may have been revealed, the report states. Although OMB is concerned by the increase in incident reporting, it’s not altogether a bad thing, said Karen Evans, OMB’s administrator for e-government and information technology.

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