Congress remains critical of the FAA's computer security program, despite agency assurances it is shoring up cyber protection. The House Science Committee and the General Accounting Office (GAO), a congressional watchdog, accused the FAA last week of minimizing the importance of computer security "at every turn," jeopardizing aviation operations. The committee's chairman, Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr. (R-Wis.), said FAA claims of addressing the full gamut of computer security and personnel problems were belied by continuing security breaches, failure to verify the backgrounds of contractor personnel anc provision of misleading information to committee staff about the state of agency security.
展开▼
