Given the current financial woes of the nation, not to mention the overall slump the economy took this year, taxpayers are more eager than ever to rush out there and file their taxes in hopes that they’ll receive suitable returns in the nick of time to pay their looming mortgage payment bills, among other serious debts. While this issue is a sensible choice from any angle, there is a particular watchdog organization out there that believes the IRS could of done a lot more with their computers to safeguard the potential of unscrupulous behavior.
This group believes that the IRS has hardly done enough to secure and fortify their computer infrastructure, including but not limited to the networking of the computers in question, in order to protect the systems from the tampering of malevolent stemming from the lies of third party IT contractors, temperamental employees of the IRS, and even hackers who wish to take a bite out of the corporate system.
The Treasury Inspector General of the TIGTA, or Tax Administration office, has spoken up on the issue of IRS computer security and has said that certain hateful people could recalibrate specific computer switches and routers and end up stealing crucial taxpayer facts in a number of unconventional ways, including but not limited to diverting the economically sensitive data to third party systems.
Addressing the concerns is the IRS itself, who claims that they’ve addressed every concern present and have tightly secured the digital perimeters of their systems.
Specifically speaking, the core of the issue concerns the protection of the routers and switches involved in handling the IRS data, devices that control the proper destinations for data to travel when operating between computers. Seeing as how the IRS uses these systems to deliver government and taxpayer information across the networks it uses, it is necessary for these systems to possess the right kind of security that protects against unwanted intruders and world wide web electronic assassins.
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