Body The mission of the Office of Safeguards is to promote taxpayer confidence in the integrity of the tax system by ensuring the confidentiality of IRS information provided to federal, state, and local agencies. Safeguards verifies compliance with IRC 6103(p)(4) safeguard requirements through the identification and mitigation of any risk of loss, breach, or misuse of Federal Tax Information held by external government agencies. Publication 1075, Tax Information Security Guidelines for Federal, State and Local Agencies PDF (Rev. 11-2021) provides guidance to ensure the policies, practices, controls, and safeguards employed by recipient agencies, agents, or contractors adequately protect the confidentiality of FTI. Technical assistance by topic Environments Cloud computing Integrated Eligibility Systems (IES) Integrated Voice Response (IVR) systems Mobile device Virtual desktop Web portals Wireless network Live data testing Networking guidance Network defense-in-depth Social media sites and collaboration tools Databases through labeling Proactive auditing Warning banner must be used when housing federal tax information Physical security Background investigations Child support resources Printed notices in ACA Internal inspections Agency Internal Audits 45 day notifications Publication 4761 guide PDF Configuration Computer virus technical assistance Configuration and patch management planning Encryption requirements of IRS publication 1075 Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) systems Use of collaborative computing environments Use of Federal Tax Information (FTI) in open source software Safeguards technical assistance virus scanning tools Policies and procedures Media sanitization guidelines Multi-factor authentication implementation Operational security policies and procedures Management Operational and Technical policies (MOT) Preventing data leakage Sample authority to operate memorandum Safeguards technical assistance policy and procedures involving a contractor Resources Email encryption procedures Podcasts Videos Safeguard Security Report (SSR) Safeguard Computer Security Evaluation Matrix (SCSEM) Nessus audit files Office hours calls Taxpayer First Act, Section 2004 (TFA 2004)
