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GAO-22-105703 1 (2022-06-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaoneo0001 and id is 1 raw text is: U.S. GOVERNMENT ACCOUNTABILITY OFFICE 441 G St. N.W. Comptroller General Washington, DC 20548 of the United States June 2, 2022 The Honorable Merrick B. Garland Attorney General Department of Justice 950 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20530 Priority Open Recommendations: Department of Justice Dear Attorney General Garland: The purpose of this letter is to provide an update on the overall status of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) implementation of GAO's recommendations and to call your personal attention to areas where open recommendations should be given high priority.1 In November 2021, we reported that on a government-wide basis, 76 percent of our recommendations made 4 years ago were implemented.2 DOJ's recommendation implementation rate was 79 percent. As of January 20, 2022, DOJ had 111 open recommendations. Fully implementing these open recommendations could significantly improve agency operations. Since our June 2021 letter, DOJ has implemented four of our 12 open priority recommendations. In doing so, DOJ successfully developed and improved its efforts to assess how it is managing and maximizing its use of industry reported drug data, including more proactively identifying problematic drug transactions.3 DOJ also established a cybersecurity risk management strategy and defined and documented its approach to coordination between its cybersecurity and enterprise risk management functions, improving its identification of acceptable risk levels and response strategies, and better ensuring that cyber risks are incorporated into department-level risk mitigation activities.4 DOJ has eight priority recommendations remaining from those we identified in the June 2021 letter. We ask for your continued attention to these remaining priority recommendations. We are also adding two recommendations related to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) federal coordination of its cybersecurity requirements bringing the total number of priority 1Priority recommendations are those that GAO believes warrant priority attention from heads of key departments or agencies. They are highlighted because, upon implementation, they may significantly improve government operation, for example, by realizing large dollar savings; eliminating mismanagement, fraud, and abuse; or making progress toward addressing a high-risk or duplication issue. 2GAO, Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2021, GAO-22-4SP (Washington, D.C.: Nov. 15, 2021). 3GAO, Drug Control: Actions Needed to Ensure Usefulness of Data on Suspicious Opioid Orders, GAO-20-118 (Washington, D.C.: Jan. 29, 2020). 4GAO, Cybersecurity: Agencies Need to Fully Establish Risk Management Programs and Address Challenges, GAO- 19-384 (Washington, D.C.: Jul. 25, 2019). GAO-22-105703 DOJ Priority Recommendations Page 1

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