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How Victims Can Regain Control Mitigate Threats in Wake of OPM Breach

 “In June 2015, the Nation learned that the personnel records of 21.5 million United States citizens had been exfiltrated by an unknown adversary from the Office of Personnel Management, one of the largest known breaches in the history of the U.S. Government.  The immediate public outcry included congressional hearings attributing the breach to OPM administrators and nation states and a nationwide media frenzy consumed with criticizing the government’s cybersecurity posture.  Noticeably absent from the response however has been sustained and meaningful support for the victims of the breach. In ICIT’s most recent legislative brief entitled “Moving Forward: How Victims Can Regain Control & Mitigate Threats in the Wake of the OPM Breach“, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology (ICIT) Fellows discuss the short-term (6-12 months), medium-term (1-5 years) and long-term (5-10+ years) threats faced by federal agencies and victims of the OPM breach.  The brief also provides recommendations on how agencies and victims can mitigate these risks through a combination of vigilance, governance, and technology.  This brief will be distributed and presented to members of the House and Senate, federal agency technology leaders and members of the critical infrastructure community.”

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