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County of Hawaii, State of Hawaii <br />STATUS REPORT <br />Fiscal Year Ended June 30, 2017 <br />This section contains the current status of prior audit recommendations. The <br />recommendations are referenced to the pages of the previous audit report for the fiscal <br />year ended June 30, 2016, dated March 29, 2017. <br />FINANCIAL STATEMENT FINDINGS <br />Reference <br />Number Recommendation Current Status <br />2016-001 Physical Security (page 28) <br />We recommend that the County develop formal The County has identified a <br />policies over the physical security of IT systems at new location that will be <br />the Center and to implement them. The server room renovated into the new server <br />should be locked and access to keys or codes room and partial funding has <br />should be limited to authorized personnel. A fire already been secured. The <br />suppression system should be installed to prevent new location would include a <br />or limit the loss of data from fire. backup generator capacity to <br />support servers and air <br />conditioning; fire suppression <br />and a secure managed access. <br />In the interim, racks have been <br />relocated to improve airflow <br />and allow the door of the <br />current room to be secured. <br />As in prior years, the County <br />still contends that its current <br />policies serve as mitigating <br />controls that address the <br />recommendations of the <br />auditors including the fact that <br />the general facility that houses <br />the server room is restricted to <br />authorized personnel and <br />overall access is limited and <br />that all data is backed up <br />nightly to a different physical <br />location to prevent the loss of <br />data from all possibilities. <br />W <br />