Controller faults computer security in Department of Human Services

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http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/Controller-faults-security-in-Department-of-Human-Services.html

By Bob Warner
philly.com
October 9, 2013

The city's Department of Human Services needs to improve security for the 
computer system that keeps records on troubled children and youth, City 
Controller Alan Butkovitz said Wednesday in a report on the department's 
Family and Child Tracking Systems.

DHS did not perform security background checks on employees of the 
software contractors who developed and maintain the system, Butkovitz 
said, and former city social workers have continued to have access to it, 
including one who left the city payroll more than 15 years ago.

"Unauthorized access increases the risk that confidential data could be 
compromised and abused," Butkovitz said in a news release. His office said 
it was unaware of any actual situations where unauthorized personnel 
looked at case records.

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