Strinkland’s transition team identified data security problem

The Dispatch is reporting that Gov. Strickland’s transition team identified the state’s data security problem before the governor took office.

Strickland had asked for teams of experts to evaluate several key areas of state government and submit their findings and recommendations in reports.

The team studying the state’s Office of Information Technology included an evaluation of state data privacy and security in its report, concluding that the state had “little to no policy guidance or standards.”

“Ohio’s lack of a robust, unified privacy/security capacity lays it open to the type of data spills and breaches that have been plaguing the government and the corporate sectors in increasing numbers over the past few years,” the report concluded.

That turned out to be helpful, didn’t it?

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