Hello again, I just read an interesting article dealing with a CJIS, Criminal Justice Information System, mandate that should be implemented by police agencies this October. The computers that have access to any FBI database should have a multifactor authentication system. I am not a computer IT specialist, but this is 2014 and I would have thought that this should have been already in place.  Here is a direct quote from the article “Computer security is one of the primary concerns for many of the nation's companies and government agencies. Billions of dollars is spent each year on preventing external threats from entering protected networks. But the sad truth is that most computer network breaches are caused by sloppy internal security policies and procedures” (Griffith, 2014).

            The article goes on to say that police vehicles that are equipped with laptop computers need an additional security login measure when officers access them. This lack of authentication is leaving a lot of these computers vulnerable to attacks.

            After reading this article it shows how much police agencies are lacking when it comes to cyber security.

Reference:

Police Technology Magazine. Griffith, D. (2014), Cyber Security: Locking down the Databases, Retrieved from http://www.policemag.com/channel/technology/articles/2014/08/cyber-security-locking-down-the-databases.aspx