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Information Security: Progress Made, But Challenges Remain to Protect Federal Systems and the Nation's Critical Infrastructures

Overview This report discusses the challenges that nation faces concerning federal information security and critical infrastructure protection (CIP). Federal agencies and other public and private entities rely extensively on computerized systems and electronic data to support their missions. CIP involves activities that enhance the security of the cyber and physical public and private infrastructures that are essential to national security, national economic security, and/or national public health and safety.

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Publisher	U.S. Government Accountability Office	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	April 2003
Format	White Papers
Topics	Physical Infrastructure Protection, Cyber Security

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