The watchdog’s finding highlights the continued fallout from the 2020 Russian cyber-espionage campaign, which infiltrated at least nine US federal agencies and prompted major changes to US cybersecurity policy.
More than two years after an alleged Russian hacking campaign exposed glaring weakness in US federal defenses, the Department of Homeland Security’s cyber agency has not updated a key agency blueprint for maintaining communications in the event of a major hack, the department’s inspector general said Monday.
also still needs to update its “continuity of operations plan” and a separate backup plan for communicating securely in the event of another breach, the inspector general said. In a written response to the inspector general, officials said that updates to both plans will come this year. Additionally,
still needs more cyberthreat data from the civilian agencies it helps protect and until then, the watchdog said, “ may not always be able to effectively detect and mitigate major cyberattacks.” The alleged Russian hacking campaign used a bugged version of software made by popular federal contractor SolarWinds. Thousands of the company’s clients downloaded the update, exposing them to potential collection from Russia’s foreign intelligence service, which US officials blamed for the incident. Moscow denies the charge.
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