usps Corporate Information Security

Jun 15th

USPS quietly replaced IT executives who left for private sector

Federal News Radio reports: John Edgar, who departed from the Postal Service June 5 to work in the private sector. An email obtained by Federal News Radio stated that Edgar, USPS’s vice president for IT, had led the IT division for the last four years and worked for the Postal Service the last 14 years. […]

Aug 26th

OIG: USPS loses databases after backup on same hardware

During the Fiscal Year (FY) 2014 Information Technology Internal Controls audit, the U.S. Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) became aware of a hardware failure that resulted in the loss of the Computer Incident Response Team (CIRT) database used to record and monitor computer incidents. The U.S. Postal Service’s Data Management Services group periodically […]