Monitored Alarm Systems: State Department Spent $1.2 Billion On An Asset Monitoring System... That Ignores All Non-Windows Equipment

Friday, August 12, 2011

State Department Spent $1.2 Billion On An Asset Monitoring System... That Ignores All Non-Windows Equipment

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But the iPost service only covers computers that use Microsoft's Windows operating system, not other assets such as the roughly 5,000 routers and switches along State's network, non-Windows operating systems, firewalls, mainframes, databases and intrusion detection devices, GAO auditors said.

Also, for the Windows computers where you can install it, it appears that the system barely works.

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