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Report Type	Reports and Testimonies
Report Date	Sept. 11, 2000
Report No.	T-AIMD-00-314
Subject	Audits Automated security systems Computer fraud Computer security Computer security policies Information resources management Information security Internal controls Software Computer resources management ILOVEYOU Computer Virus Melissa Computer Virus Social Security Trust Fund

Summary:

This testimony describes how the dramatic increases in computer interconnectivity, especially in use of the Internet, although beneficial, pose significant risks to computer systems and to the critical operations and infrastructure they support. It focuses on weaknesses at 24 major federal agencies and links those weaknesses to the risks they present to federal operations and assets. GAO reports that although the nature of risk varies, control weaknesses across agencies are strikingly similar. GAO describes six areas of general controls--security program management, access controls, application software development and change controls, segregation of duties, operating system controls, service continuity--and the specific weaknesses that were most widespread.

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