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Agencies slow to act on some critical cybersecurity recommendations - Federal News Network

by Peter Musurlian
Wed, Feb 8, 2023 09:46 ET
in False Claims

  • The Biden administration is stepping up plans to crack down on pandemic relief fraud. President Joe Biden said he is doubling down on efforts to prosecute fraudsters who stole COVID-19 relief funds. That is out of the $5 trillion (in total) appropriated by Congress. In his State of the Union address, Biden called for tripling the anti-fraud strike force that is going after criminals and extending the statute of limitations for watchdogs to go after pandemic unemployment insurance fraud from five years to 10 years. Biden said agency watchdogs still need robust funding to go after pandemic fraud. “The data shows that for every dollar we put into fighting fraud, the taxpayers get back at least 10 times as much," Biden said. Agency watchdogs estimate the total amount of pandemic fraud is currently in the tens of billions of dollars. (Biden’s State of the Union speech to feature VA goals as part of ‘unity agenda’ - Federal News Network)
  • Agencies are lagging on some critical cybersecurity recommendations and have yet to act on 60 recommendations for improving the cybersecurity of U.S. critical infrastructure. The Government Accountability Office said some of those ideas date back to 2010. They include a recommendation for the Energy Department to address risks to electric power distribution systems. And the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has yet to evaluate whether it is providing effective support to the communications sector. Until agencies address the...


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