Damning Report: Homeland Security? Dept. Can't Even Secure Its Own Buildings

[mystery-ak]

Damning Report: Homeland Security? Dept. Can't Even Secure Its Own Buildings
Richard Moorhead, The Western Journal By Richard Moorhead, The Western Journal
Published January 11, 2023 at 7:15am

The Department of Homeland Security is leaving many of its facilities and networks vulnerable to outside threats.

In a December report, the department’s Office of the Inspector General raised the alarm about personal identity verification cards that remain in the hands of former DHS employees.

Tens of thousands of PIV cards have gone without deactivation after their holders left DHS, according to The Intercept. The cards “allow staff to enter sensitive, secure facilities and access internal data networks,” the publication reported.

This problem isn’t new. Internal audits of the department have raised the alarm about access cards in the hands of former employees four different times since 2007, according to The Intercept.

Of the 137,375 cardholders who left DHS in between 2018 and 2021, the Inspector General concluded that only 49 percent of cards were deactivated in accordance with department protocol.

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https://thefederalistpapers.org/us/damning-report-homeland-security-dept-cant-even-secure-buildings

[mountaineer]

Tens of thousands of PIV cards have gone without deactivation after their holders left DHS

I just finished a David Baldacci novel from 2008 which references that very problem, except it wasn't just DHS.

[Kamaji]

One of the first things our company does when someone leaves employment is to deactivate that person's access card.