Open Recommendations

Document and implement a baseline review and escalation process for data loss prevention alerts.

Reinforce the requirements for identifying and documenting system interconnections as part of the Board’s training on its cyber risk management application and require all relevant individuals to take the training.

Evaluate and implement options to enforce the agency’s existing guidance related to identifying and documenting system interconnections.

Develop and implement a mobile application scanning program that includes a vulnerability scanning solution and process to identify and remediate vulnerabilities.

Ensure that the Board’s Incident Notification and Breach Response Plan is reviewed, tested and approved annually.

Develop and implement a role-based privacy training program.

Incorporate targeted phishing exercises into the Board’s security awareness and training program and processes.

Update the Board’s standard contract language in cloud service provider contracts to ensure that it is consistent with Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program’s Incident Communications Procedures incident reporting requirements.

Complete finalization of an agencywide data classification policy that accounts for the sensitivity of the data maintained by the CFPB.

Ensure that data classification and sensitivity labels are incorporated into the CFPB’s data loss prevention program.

Strengthen flaw remediation processes by developing and implementing a process to clearly map identified vulnerabilities to system IP addresses, host names, and remediation owners within the CFPB’s configuration management database.

Ensure that adequate resources are allocated to reinvestigate CFPB systems users as required.

Develop and maintain a ransomware strategy and specific procedures that provide a formal, focused, and coordinated approach to responding to ransomware attacks.

Ensure that testing of mission-essential functions identified in the CFPB’s continuity of operations plan is periodically performed.

Renew the authorizations to use for the CFPB’s governance, risk, and compliance tool.

Implement a process that ensures the cyber risk information in the CFPB’s governance, risk, and compliance tool is accurate and maintained.

Reiterate policy requiring project managers to transfer expense purchase card supporting documents to credit card approving officials, and for credit card approving officials to maintain the supporting documents for the duration of the retention period.

Create a centralized, electronic repository for storing facility repair supporting documentation.

Establish guidelines and best practices to require project managers to identify and combine related service ticket requests and solicit contracts for projects that exceed expense purchase card authority threshold.

Establish guidelines and controls to monitor the use of batch payments.

Ensure the responsible office updates 3099-001 to include the required anti-gag provision within the policy.

Agricultural Marketing Service needs to update its NDA form(s) to include the required anti-gag provision.

Agricultural Research Service needs to update its NDA policy to include the required anti-gag provision.

Economic Research Service needs to update its NDA policy to include the required anti-gag provision.

Foreign Agricultural Service needs to review and update active NDAs for current Foreign Agricultural Service federal employees signed after November 27, 2012, to ensure they include the required anti-gag provision.