{"id":39625,"date":"2014-02-04T08:24:12","date_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=39625"},"modified":"2014-02-04T08:24:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-04T13:24:12","slug":"va-and-your-pii-not-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39625","title":{"rendered":"VA and your PII not secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2014\/feb\/3\/va-lacks-control-over-own-data-leaks-could-occur-a\/\">The Washington Times<\/a> reports that an audit of the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs data systems reveals that the department has a \u201cmaterial weakness\u201d in the way that it handles your personally identifiable information (PII);<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The review found a list of problems including a lack of updates for security software, no monitoring of what programs were being installed on agency computers and little tracking of which personnel were accessing which systems.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators also found that background checks weren\u2019t timely, and that \u201cpersonnel were not receiving the proper level of investigation for their position sensitivity level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result, \u201cthere is an increased risk that financial and personally identifiable information may be inadvertently or deliberately misused and may result in improper disclosure or theft,\u201d the auditor said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, there&#8217;s really no problem, if you disregard the fact that the systems storing your PII aren&#8217;t secure and the people who are handling it might not be properly cleared to handle your information. So nothing to worry about. That&#8217;s sarcasm, if you didn&#8217;t recognize it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Times reports that an audit of the Department of Veterans&#8217; Affairs data systems reveals &hellip; <a title=\"VA and your PII not secure\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=39625\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VA and your PII not secure<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-veterans-affairs-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}