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GAO: Common desktop configuration holds promise for better security

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Agencies have not adopted — or are only slowly implementing — numerous recommendations and actions that could significantly improve the federal security posture, the Government Accountability Office has said.

GAO also reported that agencies did make incremental but steady progress in improving information security in 2007.

Persistent weaknesses in agency information security controls still threaten the confidentiality, integrity and availability of federal information and the systems on which the data runs, said Gregory Wilshusen, director of GAO’s information technology issues. The latest report to Congress on agencies’ compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act also showed a jump in reported security incidents.

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