The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has put it upon the General Services Administration (GSA) as well as other federal agencies to craft a “single mechanism” that will streamline crisis management after a breach, Federal News Radio reports. “What we do not want to do is stand up just another paper tiger where you have to run through a bunch of bureaucratic mechanisms to access the assistance when you need it,” said the OMB’s Trevor Rudolph. “The idea here is that the agency has access to the help beforehand, so that when there’s a problem we have help from industry very, very quickly.” This comes on the heels of The Atlantic’s report that only 14 million of the 22 million affected in Office of Personnel Management’s hack had received notification letters, with the remainder to go out in December.
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