I love it when an article ends with a zinger!

> More broadly, the OIG seems to want the DOI to develop a security posture that's less fly-by-night crypto space fintech startup, and more federal government agency with an $18.1 billion dollar budget.

Also, in response to the next quoted section below: we could start by bringing in the manufacturing of all IT infrastructure “in-house” so there’s less risk of secret back doors to get through routers and firewalls.

> The US Department of the Interior's mission is to protect America's natural resources, but it might have a hard time doing so if its systems remain as unsecured as a recent Office of the Inspector General report uncovered.

>There's no better way to relay the conclusions than the report itself: "We found that the Department's management practices and password complexity requirements were not sufficient to prevent potential unauthorized access to its systems and data," the OIG said [PDF].