Federal agencies that spend more in maintenance of legacy systems experience more frequent security incidents, study finds. Federal agencies have seen a rapid increase in security incidents. Nearly three quarters of IT budgets are spent maintaining legacy systems, former CIO says. Modernizing Government Technology Act would have boosted IT spending by about $9 billion from 2017 to 2021 had it reached president’s desk, researcher says. One of the largest federal system breaches occurred in 2015, when hackers gained access to 18 million records at the Office of Personnel Management.”]
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