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IRS announced that now all laptops will be encrypted in the next few weeks. While it is nice to see IRS taking the lead, it’s only a small step in the right direction.
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IRS announced that now all laptops will be encrypted in the next few weeks. While it is nice to see IRS taking the lead, it’s only a small step in the right direction.
When are other agencies and companies going to follow?
Everson defended his department’s security practices, however. “Every day there are attempts to get into our databases,” he said. “And there has never been a penetration of the IRS databases from the outside.”Do you believe that?
Or do you think it’s rather a question of admitting it?
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