FCC Eyes Auction Systems Upgrade Amid Cyberattacks in the News

The FCC plans to upgrade auction systems to make them more resilient to attack, its FY 2018 budget proposal said. “As recent news headlines have emphasized, the threat of cyber-attacks and security vulnerabilities are very real, and the Commission takes these threats and vulnerabilities very seriously. The FCC will proactively engage security engineers and architects to ensure the modernization of systems in the cloud are secure and adhere to Federal mandates and regulations to include two factor authentication.”