NASA Cybersecurity: An Examination of the Agency’s Information Security – Testimony before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight, House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, February 29, 2012 – Statement of Paul K. Martin, NASA Inspector General: “My testimony today highlights five issues that we believe, based on our extensive audit and investigative work, constitute NASA’s most serious challenges in the admittedly difficult task of protecting the Agency’s information and systems from inadvertent loss or malicious theft. These challenges are:

• Lack of full awareness of Agency-wide IT security posture;
• Shortcomings in implementing a continuous monitoring approach to IT security;
• Slow pace of encryption for NASA laptop computers and other mobile devices;
• Ability to combat sophisticated cyber attacks; and
• Transition to cloud computing.”