WA Auditor General finds personal information badly handled
THE WA Auditor General has found widespread deficiencies in the way sensitive personal information is handled in government agencies.
The Auditor General’s two-part Information Systems Audit Report, tabled in Parliament today, gives a wake-up call to all government agencies that handle personal and sensitive information.
In the IS Compliance Audit section of the report, Auditor General Colin Murphy examined five agencies to see whether the controls in place were sufficient to protect personal and sensitive information. The examination revealed fundamental weaknesses in all of the key areas of information security examined.
