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HRD-79-114 1 (1979-09-04)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaazqn0001 and id is 1 raw text is: M iUNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE c4l ( . .1WASHINGTON, D C 20548 HUMAN RESOURCES PIVISION B-164031(4) SEP 4 1979 The Honorable Abraham Ribicoff Chairman, Committee on - 0JIII Governmental Affairs United States Senate 110322 Dear Mr. Chairman: Subject- Followup on Computer Security at the Social Security Administratio We4 (HRD-79-114) - Your March 9, 1978, letter relating to our report to the Social Security Administration on computer security at its headquarters (HRD-78-73, Feb. 21, 1978) Fequeste that we report to you on Social Security's improvements after an appropriate length of time. On April 25, 1978, the Social Security Administration informed us of actions taken to correct the problems we identified. (See enc. I.) Since that time, we have verified that Social Security has acted on each of our recommendations. On June 5, 1978, we issue a report to Congressmen John E. Moss and Charles Rose (HRD-78-116) which we are including for your information as enclosure II. The Con- gressmen requested an evaluation of the security procedures Social Security used to protect beneficiary records. They were interested in both automated records and hard copy folders located in field offices, private insurance companies, and State disability determination offices. We reported on several management problems leading to possible misuse, abuse, or destruction of Social Security beneficiary records. The June 5 report discussed the limited safeguards provided by Social Security to protect both auto- mated beneficiary records and documents supporting beneficiary claims. Some of the more significant issues were (1) unlimited and unrestricted access to terminals, (2) ability to create as well as query beneficiary files from most terminals, (3) failure to use audit trail features within the system, (4) failure to always lock terminals during nonworking hours, (5) safeguarding (990515)

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