From: Biometric Update
By Justin Lee
The majority of Federal employees are able to access Federal computer systems with nothing more than a username and password, despite President George W. Bush ordering Federal agencies to secure their information systems with strong authentication technologies more than a decade ago, according to a report by Govtech Works. Only half of the largest Federal agencies — including General Services Administration (GSA), the Labor and Treasury departments, the Small Business Administration (SBA), National Science Foundation (NSF), and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) — have deployed strong authentication methods across 95 percent of privileged users, according to the White House annual report to Congress on the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA).
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