In September 2025, the OIG issued a special report on the Peace Corps’ Information Technology environment. OIG contracted with technical subject matter experts to conduct three cybersecurity tests from January 2025 to March 2025. The three tests included a simulated phishing campaign, a review of the agency’s internal vulnerability management practices, and penetration tests that targeted critical Peace Corps systems.
While observing the agency’s security processes throughout the assessment, OIG found that the Peace Corps’ monitoring capabilities were able to identify the testing activities and demonstrate its incident response procedures. However, the cybersecurity tests also uncovered multiple vulnerabilities and misconfigurations, ranging from informational issues to critical severity risks that the Peace Corps needs to review and address.
