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REDUCE POTENTIAL VULNERABILITIES PROTECT AGAINST INTRUSION ATTEMPTS, AND BETTER ANTICIPATE FUTURE THREATS
Segregation of duties, which reduces the risk that one individual can independently perform inappropriate actions without detection. Data security is a basic thought for any association that relies upon data frameworks and PC systems to complete its central business. It is particularly significant for government offices, where keeping up the opens trust is fundamental. The requirement for a careful way to deal with data security has been exhibited by the inescapable and continued computer-based assaults against the United States and others that keep on representing a possibly wrecking effect to frameworks and the activities that they support (Stollery, 2016).
GAO was approached to depict
(1) Cyber threats to government data frameworks and cyber based basic foundations.
(2) control lacks that make these frameworks and foundations defenseless against those dangers. To do as such, GAO depended on its past reports and investigated organization and assessors' general reports on data security (Stollery, 2016).
Cyber threats to federal information systems and cyber-based critical infrastructures are evolving and growing. Without strong security programs, organizations have encountered a wide scope of episodes including information and underscoring the requirement for improved security. These advancements have driven government authorities to turn out to be progressively worried about the cyber assault. As per GAO reports and yearly security revealing, ensured to reliably defeat Cyber threats (CENC, 2016).
Reference:
Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (CENC). "Meeting Minutes." University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA. June 21, 2016. https://www. nist.gov/sites/default/files/june_21_2016_ucb_meetin g_minutes.pdf.