“The Veterans Affairs Department needs to audit the cybersecurity of one of its components, and the results will likely have effects beyond the agency.”
“VA’s Financial Services Center, based in Austin, Texas, released a request for information Friday seeking cybersecurity audit services for the shared services program, which manages accounting and financial services for VA and provides those services to other federal agencies for a fee.”
“The audit is expected to cover the entirety of FSC’s IT systems—major and minor—covered under the program’s authority to operate, or ATO.”
“FSC IT officials want the audit to address three main areas…” Read the full article here.
Source: VA Needs a Cyber Audit of its Governmentwide Financial Services Center – By Aaron Boyd, August 7, 2020. Nextgov.
