http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/enterprise-apps/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=225600134 By Elizabeth Montalbano InformationWeek June 9, 2010 Federal auditors have criticized the security and design of a General Services Administration e-travel system, suggesting changes to it as part of a yearly review of the agency's IT process. In the Office of the Inspector General's semiannual report to Congress, auditors said that the GSA's implementation of the E2 Solutions travel management system has security and usability issues that, among other things, don't properly measure the performance of the system and make it unfriendly for users, particularly disabled ones. "GSA's implementation of E2 has not provided the level of scrutiny necessary to ensure that internal and financial controls adequately mitigate operational risks," auditors wrote in the report. "In addition, targeted goals and performance measures necessary to comprehensively assess how well E2 meets GSA's travel management needs are not yet in place." Specifically, the report said the GSA needs to assess the costs incurred with E2's implementation against the multiple contracts used to facilitate operations of the system. Also, the agency needs more oversight and control points when it comes to distributing funds. [...] _________________________________________________________________ Attend Black Hat USA 2010, hosted at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada July 24-29th, offering over 60 training sessions and 11 tracks of Briefings from security industry elite. To sign up visit http://www.blackhat.comReceived on Wed Jun 09 2010 - 23:27:26 PDT
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