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Page 2A NORTHWEST East Oregonian Thursday, April 16, 2015 Data center security flaws IURPVWLOOQRW¿[HG Shelby said the Department of Administrative Services agreed with all the auditors’ SALEM — Three years af- recommendations, which called WHU VWDWH DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG VH- for the agency to purchase new curity weaknesses at Oregon’s WRROVDVZHOODVGH¿QHDQGGRF- main data center in Salem, the ument its security processes. Hackers recently accessed VWDWHKDV\HWWR¿[VRPHRIWKH data at the center, Gov. Kate problems. The vulnerabilities were out- Brown revealed last month, but lined in a secret March 2012 let- Shelby said that breach was un- ter to Michael Jordan, who was related to the security problems at the time director of the De- DXGLWRUV LGHQWL¿HG +RZHYHU partment of Administrative Ser- Shelby said one of the of the vices, which manages the data suggestions auditors laid out warehouse. The facility stores in the letter would have helped data for multiple state agencies. IT staff to more quickly assess The extent of the problem which types of data attackers remains unclear, because the accessed. The state data center had agency declined to release the letter in response to a public not yet installed centralized log records request from the EO management software, which Media Group/Pamplin Media would have allowed employ- Group Capital Bureau. Auditors ees to more quickly assess the are in the midst of another pe- scope of the data breach, Shel- riodic review of security at the by said. ³<RX¿QGRXWWKDWWKHGRRU¶V center and they expect to com- unlocked, or a window’s open,” plete the report this summer. State agencies have strug- Shelby said. “The next step is to gled for years to keep Orego- ¿QGRXWLIDQ\WKLQJ¶VEHHQWDN- nians’ data secure. Earlier this en or moved.” The data center is now in the month, the EO Media Group/ Pamplin Media Group Capital process of installing the cen- Bureau reported that outdat- tralized log management soft- ed security protocols on state ware, an improvement that was websites left Oregonians vul- planned before the breach. IT nerable to attackers when they employees ultimately learned SDLGFKLOGVXSSRUW¿OHGXQHP- hackers had accessed metadata ployment claims and completed about the movement of infor- mation across the state comput- other online transactions. One reason the Department er network. The public portion of the of Administrative Services does not want the public to see 2012 data center security audit the 2012 letter is that attackers only hinted at the security vul- could take advantage of securi- nerabilities that auditors found. ty weaknesses at the data center It focused on improper handling of media tapes and incomplete WKDWLWKDVQRW¿[HG Matt Shelby, a spokesman or not fully tested recovery pro- for the Department of Admin- grams used after events such as istrative Services, wrote in an major computer crashes. The only mention of weak- email that “there is little be- yond the header that we would nesses that could leave the cen- release because it discusses past ter vulnerable to hackers was a and current security issues at VLQJOHVHQWHQFHWKDWVWDWHG¿QG- ings of a security review, one of the State Data Center.” Nonetheless, Shelby said the two objectives of the audit, in an interview Tuesday that ZHUHVXPPDUL]HGLQWKHFRQ¿- according to state Chief Infor- dential letter to Jordan. The report was unusual be- PDWLRQ 6HFXULW\ 2I¿FHU 6WHIDQ Richards, employees have ad- cause state auditors usually pro- dressed approximately one- vide at least a general descrip- third of the security issues cited tion of the range of problems they found and analysis of the by auditors. “The other two-thirds, causes. For example, a 2010 au- ZH¶YH PDGH VLJQL¿FDQW SURJ- dit of security at the data center ress,” Shelby said. “By that, I clearly stated there were prob- mean 50 percent to 75 percent lems. “In our prior audits of the of what we think we need to VWDWHGDWDFHQWHUZHLGHQWL¿HG do.” By HILLARY BORRUD Capital Bureau VLJQL¿FDQWVHFXULW\ZHDNQHVVHV that collectively heightened the risk that applications hosted at the (state data center) could be compromised,” auditors wrote. “During this audit we con- ¿UPHGWKDWPRVWRIWKHVHVHFX- rity issues continued to exist.” A spokeswoman for Brown, who was secretary of state and oversaw the Audits Division in 2012, referred questions about why the 2012 security concerns were kept secret to the current Secretary of State Jeanne At- kins. Tony Green, a spokesman for Atkins, said it would require DIDLUDPRXQWRIUHVHDUFKWR¿J- ure out why auditors disclosed security concerns in 2010 but not in 2012. “But generally speaking, au- ditors weigh the security risks known at that time against the best way to get the recommen- dations implemented,” Green wrote in an email. “Between DQGWKHULVNEHQH¿W analysis produced different an- swers.” The Secretary of State’s Of- ¿FHDOVRGHFOLQHGWRUHOHDVHWKH 2012 letter. “If you publish a report that says this agency is vulnerable to a hack that’s kind of like printing an invitation to hack it,” Green wrote. Brown’s communications director Kristen Grainger said that as secretary of state and now as governor, Brown has also shared the concern that identifying security weaknesses could make it easier for attack- ers to access Oregonians’ data. “I think to a certain extent she wants to be very careful not to bring this to the attention of hackers or people who would do harm to the state’s IT ef- forts,” Grainger said. However, Grainger said Brown wants to address what has become a “long line” of data breaches at state agencies — hackers accessed databases at the Secretary of State’s Of- ¿FH DQG WKH 2UHJRQ (PSOR\- ment Department in 2014 — and that is why the governor wants to hire an independent expert to review state IT man- agement and vulnerabilities. ——— The Capital Bureau is a col- laboration between EO Media Group and Pamplin Media Group. Gordon King/Yakima Herald-Republic via AP, File In this 2008, file photo, Will Zack pulls a sockeye salmon from a hoop net on his family’s fishing scaffold on the Columbia River just east of the Bon- neville Dam near Skamania, Wash. Congressional delegations from Wash- ington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana are demanding that the Obama ad- ministration begin negotiations with Canada to update a landmark treaty that governs the operation of dams on the Columbia, which is North America’s fourth-largest river. Northwest lawmakers seek treaty talks with Canada suggest changes beginning in 2024 with 10 years’ notice. Numerous issues already have SPOKANE, Wash. — The entire emerged. For instance, the United States con- congressional delegation from Washing- ton, Oregon, Idaho and Montana is de- tends it should pay dramatically less to manding that the Obama administration &DQDGD IRU WKH YDULRXV EHQH¿WV LW JHWV begin negotiations with Canada to up- through the treaty. Also, Native American tribes in the date a landmark treaty that governs the operation of dams on North America’s U.S. and Canada are pushing for the return of salmon runs that some of the fourth-largest river. The treaty, signed in 1964, is import- dams destroyed. Tribes are pushing for the treaty to ant because the Columbia River basin’s dams affect the economy, environment include salmon restoration to the upper DQG ÀRRGFRQWURO QHHGV RI PLOOLRQV RI Columbia, above Grand Coulee Dam in residents in the four states, along more northern Washington state. The U.S. has than 1,200 miles of the river and its trib- said the two countries should study the SRVVLELOLW\RIUHVWRULQJ¿VKSDVVDJHRYHU utaries. “Given the 2024 deadline for certain that dam. But Canada contends restoring aspects of the treaty, we ... urge you to ¿VKPLJUDWLRQDQGKDELWDWLVQRWDWUHDW\ initiate negotiations with Canada in issue. The new letter follows one sent to 2015,” the 26 members of the Senate and the president last year requesting action House wrote to the president this week. The letter expressed concerns about by mid-2014. It is intended to “express the Obama administration’s slow pace consternation with how the process has unfolded thus far.” on the complicated matter. “We remain concerned about ... the The treaty governs operations of hy- droelectric dams and reservoirs on the prioritization this matter is receiving Columbia River. It has no expiration within your Administration and the De- date, but either country can cancel it or partment of State,” the letter states. By NICHOLAS K. 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