OMB revises incident reporting policy
HIPAA Weekly Advisor, July 24, 2006
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Federal agencies must report all security incidents involving personally identifiable information to the federal incident response center (US-CERT) within one hour of discovering the breach, according to a memo issued July 12 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
The memo comes in the wake of the recent theft of a Department of Veterans Affairs laptop containing sensitive information for more than 26 million veterans. The old policy provided for different reporting times to US-CERT for different types of incidents.
In addition, the memo requires agencies that have "significant isolated or widespread weaknesses identified by the agency's Inspector General or the Government Accountability Office" to specify the funds necessary for correcting these security vulnerabilities.
Click here to read the OMB memo.
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