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GAO Audit Of IRS Highlights Common Database And Access Control Woes

A new report from the Government Accountability Office ripped into the IRS once again for insufficient access controls, database maintenance, and monitoring. The report’s findings echo many of the issues seen in database and application security across many large enterprises today, experts say. The IRS isn’t special in the fact that it hasn’t been able to keep up with regulator demands, one security expert says. Organizations have to understand that monitoring and controlling access to applications and databases needs to be done, he says. Many organizations aren’t even aware that database activity monitoring exists as a solution category.”]

Source: https://www.darkreading.com/database-security/gao-audit-of-irs-highlights-common-database-and-access-control-woes

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