Former NSA’s global network vulnerability analyst Terry Dunlap says that centralizing financial data can make federal agencies for hackers.
Experts are afraid that Trump’s decree has worrying consequences for cyber security. EPA/Maxim Shipenkov
US president Donald Trump intends to reform the monitoring of federal procurement.
The President’s Decree last Wednesday obliges federal agencies to build procurement systems. The systems must include a mechanism that allows the agency leader to stop and check any payment.
However, cyber security experts warn that the systems proposed by Trump may be a significant cyber security risk. According to experts, agencies have to develop systems over a timely schedule, which in turn can lead to security problems.
Reported ISMG.
NSA’s former global network vulnerability analyst Terry Dunlap warns that Trump’s plans can lead to disaster. Dunlap says that centralizing financial data can make federal agencies for hackers.
“We are expected to have poor quality code, vulnerability and supply chain pitfalls that allow malicious actors to easily slip into,” Dunlap tells ISMG.
Also former Ministry of Defense’s Senior Cyber Policy Advisor Tony many emphasizes that threats are very interested in the centralized contract information archive. Threats can, for example, take advantage of the cyber security vulnerability of subcontractors to access US administration information.
The US administration efficiency department Dog and White House did not comment on the ISMG.