Between the government A shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States budget office said on Thursday that it recently suffered from a hack and was moved to contain. The CBO provides financial and economic information that is not available to lawmakers, and the Washington Post reported that the agency was infiltrated by a “suspicious actor.”
CBO spokeswoman Caitlin Emma told the statement in a statement that “we have used increased monitoring and new security controls to protect the agent’s systems” and that from time to time cases are faced with threats. ” Emma did not address questions from the wire about whether the government shutdown has affected technical staff or cybersecurity-related work at the CBO.
With the increasing severity of the program to receive healthy food assistance (SNAP) leaving Americans hungry, more and more designated flights disrupting flights, the destruction of funds for social workers, the closure of security operations, the closure is increasingly affecting every corner of the US. But investigators, former government employees and rural, technical experts warn that the gaps in the activities of the base during the closure of flammable materials, monitoring the work, can have real consequences for the protection of the Federal, now and for years to come.
“A lot of the government’s digital systems are still running in the cloud throughout the shutdown, even if the office is empty,” said Safli Mojidi, a longtime NASA researcher and security contractor. “If everything is set up correctly, then the cloud provides an important basis for security, but it is difficult to rest easy during the shutdown knowing that even in the best of times there are security problems.”
Even before the shutdown, Federal Cybersecurity staff have been influencing cuts through agencies like the Department of Homeland Security and Infrastructure – coordinating federal leadership and coordination across government. And CISA continued to cut staff during the shutdown.
In a statement, department spokeswoman Marci McCarthy said “Cisa continues to do its job” but did not answer specific questions about how its work and digital security in other agencies will affect the government.
The government’s shift to the cloud over the past decade, and the increased focus on cybersecurity maturity in recent years, provides an important backstop for disruptions such as shutdowns like this one. Experts insist, however, that the state’s situation is never static, and some agencies are more advanced and better equipped than others. Additionally, missed and extended digital security work accumulated during the shutdown will create a backlog when employees return that can be difficult to reduce.
