[privacy] U.S. OMB Sets Guidelines for Federal Employee Laptop Security

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

Via The Washington Post.

[snip]

The Bush administration is giving federal civilian agencies 45 days to
implement new measures to protect the security of personal information
that agencies hold on millions of employees and citizens.

The new security guidelines, issued Friday by the White House Office of
Management and Budget, cap a month marked by data thefts or disclosures
at five different agencies that compromised Social Security numbers and
other private data on millions of people.

To comply with the new policy, agencies will have to encrypt all data
on laptop or handheld computers unless the data are classified as
"non-sensitive" by an agency's deputy director. Agency employees also
would need two-factor authentication -- a password plus a physical
device such as a key card -- to reach a work database through a remote
connection, which must be automatically severed after 30 minutes of
inactivity.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/27/AR2006062700540.html

- ferg


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