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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Inspector General conducted this audit to determine whether the EPA has established sufficient controls to prevent unauthorized access to the Central Data Exchange system.
Summary of Findings
The EPA needs to strengthen management and access security controls for the Central Data Exchange, or CDX, system. The security of the CDX system is integral to the EPA accepting electronic environmental data for the Agency’s air, water, hazardous waste, and toxics release inventory programs. Without adequate security controls, the CDX is vulnerable to threat actors exploiting weak security controls to potentially gain unauthorized access, create fraudulent accounts, and enter unreliable data into the system.
Today, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission Office of Inspector General released their semiannual report for the reporting period ending March 31, 2025. The report is part of the semiannual requirement to communicate OIG oversight activities of the CPSC to Congress and the American people.
This report highlights our work initiated and completed from October 1, 2024, to March 31, 2025. During this period, we issued 5 investigative reports and 12 audit and evaluation reports.
This is an annual report to Congress regarding the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s (CPSC) efforts to prevent and protect trafficking victims in 2024 in accordance with the Trafficking Victims Prevention and Protection Reauthorization Act of 2022.
