Why the State Department is so bad at security

In the process of essentially exonerating Secretary Hillary Clinton‘s use of a personal email system, FBI Director James Comey nevertheless slammed the State Department’s email security and handling of classified documents.

People who spoke to CNBC said that State has, for a long time, shown a disturbing lack of seriousness about information security. While some of this can be attributed to the nature of the agency’s mission — “We’re required to be outward-facing, we’re required to communicate, we’re required to foster dialogue,” said agency spokesman John Kirby — other patterns of behavior are less explicable, they said.

One former government employee told CNBC the problem is endemic.

“I completely agree that the State Department has a lax approach to security,” said a former U.S. federal employee who worked with the State Department on classified things and spoke to CNBC.com on condition of anonymity. “I experienced it several times myself in terms of their handling of classified information both in print and in speech.” For the full article click here 

from health IT caucus http://ift.tt/29wC6aC
via IFTTT