Nearly a year after the Office of Personnel Management’s large-scale breach, auditors from the agency’s Office of the Inspector General expressed concern that OPM’s data protection procedures weren’t secure enough, The Washington Post reports. “We continue to believe that there is a very high risk that the project will fail to meet its stated objectives of delivering a more secure environment at a lower cost,” the auditors said. Meanwhile, the Electronic Privacy Information Center urged OPM to collect less information from job applicants and instead develop its data protection protocols, FierceGovernmentIT reports. Federal organizations are “incapable of adequately protecting sensitive information from improper disclosure,” the group said in its comments to OPM. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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