Government Contracts

In the summer of 2015, the U.S. Government revealed that over 20 million people were swept up in two enormous breaches of Government computer systems. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) announced that every person given a Government background check for the prior 15 years was probably affected. Notably, one of the hackers posed as an employee of an OPM contractor performing background investigations. The Government launched a series of aggressive initiatives to spur agencies to improve their cybersecurity readiness and performance, including the 2015 “cyber sprints” executed in response to the OPM breaches.

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