GCSB completes audit of systems, including capabilities of foreign partners

The Government Communications Security Bureau has just finished a full audit of its systems, including of the capabilities of any of its foreign partners.

The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security recommended the audit after revealing an unnamed foreign agency was allowed far too much leeway for years within the GCSB.

That report in March pushed for organisational improvements, as well five other moves, such as registers and reviews to reduce the risk of any repeat.

"The GCSB accepted all recommendations in my report on its hosting of a foreign capability," the inspector Brendan Horsley told RNZ in a statement.

The agency recently completed the full audit of all systems, which was his third recommendation.

"This supports work under way on the other recommendations and I am satisfied with progress so far," he said in a statement.