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The Sorry State of Federal Agency Cyber-Readiness

This will keep consultants supporting federal agencies fully employed for many years.

Government Technology magazine has highlighted the sorry state of affairs of federal agencies in their readiness to provide cybersecurity for their information systems. See One Year After OPM Breach, Federal Cybersecurity Continues to Struggle.

Read the article and you might find it as scary as it is for me. The first step toward action is recognition that there is a problem. Even that is missing in a significant number of people and agencies. Yikes!

Eric Holdeman is a contributing writer for Emergency Management magazine and is the former director of the King County, Wash., Office of Emergency Management.