Audit finds notable security gaps in FBI's storage media management

An OIG audit found 'significant weaknesses' in the FBI’s inventory management and disposal of electronic storage media with sensitive and classified data, citing poor tracking of extracted media, inconsistent classification markings, and inadequate physical security (e.g., unsecured storage and non-functioning cameras) at a destruction facility; the OIG issued three recommendations to improve tracking, labeling, and physical safeguards, and the FBI responded that it is developing a new "Physical Control and Destruction of Classified and Sensitive Electronic Devices and Material Policy Directive," adding protective cages with video surveillance, and will report progress within 90 days.