Copiague School District Faulted For IT Risks: NY State Comptroller

COPIAGUE, NY — New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli issued the results of an audit of the Copiague school district on Wednesday.

The audit faults the district for the handling of some information technology.

District officials did not properly manage nonstudent network user accounts and financial software access controls. As a result, data and personal, private and sensitive information accessible by those accounts were at a greater risk for unauthorized access, misuse or loss. Auditors found that officials did not disable 316 nonstudent network user accounts (24%) that were not needed, including two user accounts assigned to employees that left the district more than 17 years ago. In addition, the district did not ensure that employees had the appropriate access to the financial software necessary to perform their job functions or provide IT security awareness and data privacy training annually to all officials and employees with access to financial and other sensitive data.

Patch reached out to the school district for comment.