Live security tests at Commerce subdivision 'confirm our worst fears'

[Free Vulcan]

Undercover agents breached the physical security of the National Institute of Standards and Technology 15 out of 15 times, House Science Committee Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) said Wednesday during a hearing on the institute's cybersecurity.

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) ran the testing at the committee's urging and presented a full report, including videotapes of the test, to the committee before the hearing.

"Their findings are alarming and confirmed our worst fears," said Smith. "NIST is a sieve."

Read more at: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/354915-live-security-tests-at-commerce-subdivision-confirm-our-worst-fears

[driftdiver]

LOL NIST, a bunch of egg heads that write standards.   

Lets talk about organizations that actually have secrets in their possession.   Hillarys server for example.

Or the TSA, where you go through security in one building, are given a badge and walk outside unescorted to get to the other building.

[InHeavenThereIsNoBeer]

Of the hundreds of customer sites I have visited, a division of the Commerce Department was the only one where I could walk straight into my customer's office without any security or reception.  Sometimes if he wasn't in I'd borrow his spare computer while I waited.

Another Commerce division had to do a background check before I was even allowed in the building.  Since the FBI had just completed one so I could go in the Hoover Building, I suggested they contact them to save themselves some work.  Oh, no, the FBI was not good enough for them, they need to run their own.

Your grandchildren's tax dollars at "work".