--- title: OPM Breached - Are you Cybersecurity Ready? - Valeo Networks description: On June 4, 2015, U.S officials announced that the biggest government hack occurred last December. Don’t put your employees and clients at risk. 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[Valeo Networks](https://blog.valeonetworks.com/author/valeo-networks) : Jun 17, 2015, 12:00:00 AM [Managed IT Services](https://blog.valeonetworks.com/tag/managed-it-services) ![](https://blog.valeonetworks.com/hubfs/Blog%20Images/Imported_Blog_Media/missing-image.png) On June 4, 2015, [U.S officials announced that the biggest government hack occurred last December](https://www.opm.gov/news/latest-news/announcements/). Hackers working for the Chinese state were responsible for the breach the computer system of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). The OPM is a government agency that screens and hires federal workers and approves security clearances for 90 percent of the federal government. [These stolen records are popping up for sale on the “darknet” and are being actively traded](https://www.foxnews.com/politics/records-from-government-data-breach-surface-on-darknet-says-expert). **Don’t put your employees and clients at risk.** ***Damages from data cybercrime are not reparable.*** In the case of the [OPM Hack, is far deeper and more problematic](https://www.wjcl.com/news/local-news/opm-hack-far-deeper-than-publicly-acknowledged-went-undetected-for-more-than-a-year-sources-say/18230330/story) as it affects the financial information of 4 million employees and anyone that has gone through the security clearance process. As a result, those affected must carefully watch their [credit scores and personal finances,](https://www.federaltimes.com/story/government/cybersecurity/2015/06/05/opm-data-breach-for-you/28534883/) along with spear-phishing emails which are designed to fool people that receive them into opening a link or attachment so that a hacker can gain access to computer systems. Using the stolen OPM data, for instance, a hacker can send a fake email posing as a person’s colleague from work. *Is compliance security?* **Compliance does not equate to security.** For example, you might have a maintenance log in place to comply with a regulation or policy. However, without active maintenance and monitoring of the logs, you would not have awareness of any potential breaches. ***Here are tips on Achieving Compliance and Security*** - **Map your IT environment** to be situationally aware, inside and outside of your network. Are all of your assets networked? - **Perform Due Diligence** by ensuring that your vendors and their partners are compliant and secure**.** - **Share information outside of the IT department** and train employees on how to spot cyberattacks **to increase vigilance.** - **Eliminate redundancies** by inventorying your reports, flagging redundancies, and removing reports that take up space but add little value. **Proper cybersecurity involves proper analysis.** - **Use compliance as a guide** and grow beyond compliance and into the realm of being truly secure - **Operate in a strategic, tactical, and operational manner.** Adhere to a common methodology that incorporates threat analysis and threat intelligence across systems and processes.  Don’t fall victim to having a false sense of security simply because your systems are compliant. Are you monitoring your systems and network, and do you have a strategy to combat cybercrimes? 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