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Cybersecurity: HHS Should Strengthen Oversight and Enhance Security Controls for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline
GAO-26-108836
Sep 17, 2026
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10 Open Recommendations
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should direct the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to incorporate the seven missing cybersecurity control areas from HHS's CPG in the 988 Lifeline cooperative agreement. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should direct the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to work with the network administrator to incorporate the three missing cybersecurity control areas from HHS's CPG in the 988 Lifeline network administrator's network agreement with the crisis contact centers. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should direct the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to work with the network administrator to ensure full implementation of the 988 Lifeline network agreement compliance checklist process. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should direct the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to work with the network administrator to implement the current NIST password guidance. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should direct the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to work with the network administrator to establish requirements for crisis contact centers' development of incident response planning policies and monitor the implementation of such policies. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Health and Human Services The Secretary of HHS should direct the Assistant Secretary for Mental Health and Substance Abuse to work with the network administrator to establish requirements for crisis contact centers' development of incident response plans and monitor the implementation of such plans. (Recommendation 6)
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Aviation Cybersecurity: FAA and TSA Are Collaborating on Cybersecurity but Need to Address Key Shortfalls
GAO-26-107693
Jul 16, 2026
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5 Open Recommendations
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Transportation Security Administration The Administrator of TSA should update the TSA Cybersecurity Roadmap to define the roles and responsibilities for the TSA entities responsible for carrying out the goals and objectives described within it, including for the aviation subsector, and align the roadmap with the DHS Cybersecurity Strategy. The TSA Administrator should communicate its Cybersecurity Roadmap to appropriate non-federal stakeholders (recommendation 1)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should update the agency's cyber budget data request process to ensure that it includes all cybersecurity spending from program offices. (recommendation 2)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should ensure that the agency's updated Zero Trust Implementation Plan includes detailed steps for transitioning all operating environments to a zero trust architecture. (recommendation 3)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should ensure that the agency's updated Zero Trust Implementation Plan fully aligns with NIST best practices for migrating to a zero trust architecture. (recommendation 4)
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Federal Aviation Administration The Administrator of FAA should direct the agency's Cybersecurity Steering Committee to take steps, as the agency implements its revised Cybersecurity Strategy, to ensure it carries out monitoring as planned and incorporates lessons learned from its past experiences. (recommendation 5)
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Cybersecurity: Selected Agencies Need to Better Protect Cloud Data
GAO-26-108443
Jun 25, 2026
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12 Open Recommendations
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the agency fully implements continuous monitoring for its selected PaaS system, to include reviewing continuous monitoring deliverables from the cloud service provider. (Recommendation 1)
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Department of State The Secretary of State should ensure that the agency fully implements incident response and recovery for its selected PaaS system, to include documenting plans or procedures for coordinating incident response and recovery with providers. (Recommendation 2)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the agency fully implements continuous monitoring for its selected PaaS system, to include collecting and reviewing audit logs. (Recommendation 3)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the agency fully implements continuous monitoring for its selected SaaS system, to include collecting and reviewing audit logs. (Recommendation 4)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the agency fully implements incident response and recovery for its selected PaaS system, to include documenting plans or procedures for measuring and tracking incident response time. (Recommendation 5)
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Department of Veterans Affairs The Secretary of Veterans Affairs should ensure that the agency fully implements incident response and recovery for its selected SaaS system, to include documenting plans or procedures for testing incident response and recovery procedures. (Recommendation 6)
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Department of Government Efficiency: Treasury Needs to Fully Implement Data Protection Controls
GAO-26-108131
Apr 28, 2026
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6 Open Recommendations
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Commissioner of the Fiscal Service to update BFS policy to define the minimum screening requirements for obtaining broad access to Treasury payment system data. (Recommendation 1)
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Commissioner of the Fiscal Service to update BFS policy to require employees to take IT security and privacy training before obtaining broad access to Treasury payment systems. (Recommendation 2)
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Commissioner of the Fiscal Service to establish and implement a process for verifying that employees sign BFS IT security rules of behavior prior to receiving broad access to payment systems. (Recommendation 3)
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Commissioner of the Fiscal Service to establish and implement a process for verifying that broad access granted to payment systems is consistent with the level approved by the authorizing official. (Recommendation 4)
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Commissioner of the Fiscal Service to establish and implement processes for conducting exit interviews and obtaining signatures on post-employment documentation in cases where these cannot occur before individuals with access to payment systems leave the agency. In doing so, the Commissioner should expeditiously implement this process for the anonymized former employee discussed in this report (employee B). (Recommendation 5)
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Bureau of the Fiscal Service The Secretary of the Treasury should direct the Commissioner of the Fiscal Service to either (1) configure BFS's data loss prevention tool to identify and block emails containing unencrypted payment information sent outside the agency, or (2) update BFS's process for reviewing emails with unencrypted payment information to include messages sent to other federal agencies and implement the updated process. (Recommendation 6)
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