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Government IT security strategies - disappointingly weak

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By Allan Tan | Aug 17, 2009

A recently published Booz Allen Hamilton report card on the state of IT security within the US government describes public departments as woefully under-resourced and overly reliant on external experts. The report comes on the heels of publicly embarrassing hacks against a number of US government department websites, including the New York Police Department.

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