Office of the Inspector General

U.S. Department of Justice

OVERSIGHT ★ INTEGRITY ★ GUIDANCE

Audit of the INTERPOL Washington, 

the United States National Central 

Bureau’s OA/Envoy System 

Pursuant to the Federal 

Information Security Modernization 

Act of 2014 Fiscal Year 2019

Audit Division 20-038 March 2020
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Commentary and Summary 

Audit of the INTERPOL Washington, the United States National Central 

Bureau’s OA/Envoy System Pursuant to the Federal Information Security 

Modernization Act of 2014 Fiscal Year 2019

Objectives

The objectives of this audit were to determine whether 

the INTERPOL Washington, the United States National 

Central Bureau (USNCB) OA/Envoy system’s security 

program and practices were consistent with the 

requirements of the Federal Information Security 

Modernization Act (FISMA). In addition, the audit was 

designed to perform a vulnerability assessment of the 

OA/Envoy system and to evaluate selected system 

security controls.

Results in Brief

The audit did not identify any weaknesses in the control 

areas in USNCB’s OA/Envoy system that resulted in a 

finding other than those deficiencies that were identified 

in USNCB’s Information Security Program. These 

findings and subsequent recommendations are reported 

in the Audit of INTERPOL Washington, USNCB’s 

Information Security Program Performance Audit Report.

Recommendations

This audit provides no recommendations for improving 

USNCB’s OA/Envoy system. 

Public Release

The OIG is publicly releasing this Commentary and 

Summary of the report rather than the full report itself 

because Inspectors General are required by FISMA to 

take appropriate steps to ensure the protection of 

information that, if disclosed, may adversely affect 

information security. Such protections shall be 

commensurate with the risk.

Audit Approach

KPMG LLP conducted this performance audit of USNCB’s 

OA/Envoy system under the direction of the Department 

of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) and in 

accordance with Generally Accepted Government 

Auditing Standards (GAGAS) and the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) reporting requirements. 

The OIG reviewed KPMG LLP's report and related 

documentation for compliance with GAGAS. The OIG’s 

review was not intended to enable the OIG to make a 

conclusion about the effectiveness of USNCB’s 

information security controls. KPMG LLP is responsible 

for the attached auditors' report dated December 12, 

2019, and the conclusions expressed in the report. The 

OIG’s review disclosed no instances where KPMG LLP did 

not comply, in all material respects, with GAGAS and 

OMB reporting requirements.

Background

FISMA was passed by Congress and signed into law by 

the President in 2014. FISMA assigns responsibilities to 

federal agencies, the National Institute of Standards and 

Technology (NIST), and OMB to strengthen federal 

information system security. This includes directing 

NIST to develop standards and guidelines for ensuring 

the effectiveness of information security controls over 

information systems that support federal agencies’ 

operations and assets, and requiring the head of each 

agency to implement policies and procedures to costeffectively reduce risks to an acceptable level.

Annually, agency Inspectors General are required to 

either perform an independent evaluation or contract an 

independent external auditor to perform an evaluation of 

the agency’s information security program and practices 

to ensure the effectiveness of the program and 

practices. Each evaluation must include: (1) testing the 

effectiveness of information security policies, 

procedures, and practices of a representative subset of 

the agency’s information systems; (2) an assessment 

(based on the results of the testing) of compliance with 

FISMA; and (3) separate representations, as 

appropriate, regarding information security related to 

national security systems.
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