A report by British Columbia’s auditor general has revealed several holes in the safety net that restricts access to provincial government systems with the discovery that some ministries weren’t following the rules.
Auditor general Carol Bellringer’s report released this week looked at five ministries and how each allowed employees and contractors to access government systems with passwords and usernames.
The report didn’t look for inappropriate use of accounts, although it found more than 500 accounts that had been used after the employee had either left or was fired and more than 700 accounts still active that hadn’t been used in a decade.