August 23, 2024 at 05:51AM
The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General reports that the FBI fails to securely manage decommissioned electronic storage media, containing both sensitive law enforcement and national security information. The devices were not properly labeled, stored, tracked, or secured, posing a risk of loss or theft. The OIG recommends revised procedures and better physical security measures.
Based on the meeting notes, the key takeaways are:
1. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has been found to have weaknesses in the physical security of decommissioned electronic storage media containing sensitive information at their controlled facility.
2. The FBI could not always account for these devices, including internal hard drives and thumb drives, and did not properly track or confirm their destruction.
3. The Office of the Inspector General (OIG) recommends that the FBI revises its procedures to ensure proper accountability, tracking, sanitization, and destruction of storage media, as well as implementing controls for appropriate classification labeling and improving the physical security at the destruction facility.
These are the major points from the meeting notes, and they highlight the OIG’s concerns regarding the FBI’s handling of decommissioned electronic storage media.