A Homeland Security Department privacy panel Thursday urged the agency to strengthen information-sharing policies by creating an internal board to manage and oversee how data is used, stored and shared across the intelligence community.
A draft report released at a meeting of the DHS Privacy and Data Integrity Advisory Committee also would require a threshold analysis whenever the agency receives data-sharing request and would require officials to prepare, document, and apply auditing standards and protocols to measure compliance with information-sharing rules.
The report, which must be approved by the privacy committee before being transmitted to DHS management, coincided with news reports that the DHS network for sharing sensitive but unclassified data with state and local authorities was hacked in March and again in April.
Addressing the 3 Biggest BYOD Security Threats
Mobile Apps: New Ways to Connect Government with Citizens
Continuous Monitoring As a Service: A Shift in the Way Government Does Business
sponsored
3 Ways Data is Improving DoD Performance
JOIN THE DISCUSSION
By using this service you agree not to post material that is obscene, harassing, defamatory, or otherwise objectionable. Although Nextgov does not monitor comments posted to this site (and has no obligation to), it reserves the right to delete, edit, or move any material that it deems to be in violation of this rule.