In the report, Murphy's office examined 65 agencies in general, and drilled down into detail for five agencies which collected sensitive information about state residents. The auditor was not ...

Western Australia's Auditor General Colin Murphy late last week delivered a scathing report into the security of state government IT systems, billing it as a "wake-up call" to departments and agencies ...

CPAs ACKNOWLEDGE THE IMPORTANCE of being proactive on IT security issues but often find it difficult getting corporate boards and audit committees to realize IT security protection requires ongoing, ...

Before he became a chief technical security officer at Qualys, Josh Hankins was a cybersecurity leader in financial services. He learned how security audit failures are increasingly costly, and he ...

The California State Auditor has issued a stinging report that faults the California Department of Technology (CDT) for its oversight of state agencies’ information security — the Auditor’s sixth such ...

When CardSystems Solutions was hacked in 2004 in one of the largest credit card data breaches at the time, it reached for its security auditor’s report. In theory, CardSystems should have been safe.

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Veterans Affairs Department continues to have significant security weaknesses, including previously flagged flaws that have yet to ...

Two years after the breaches that exposed the data of 22.1 million people, the Office of Personnel Management is still struggling to properly test its information security. A new audit by the agency’s ...

The State Auditor's Office was one of multiple agencies to launch investigations of CATS following the fatal stabbing of ...