Posted on 11/04/2013 4:39:48 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The health care website went down again Monday for an hour and a half, and no one is sure why.
As HealthCare.gov was being developed, crucial tests to ensure the security and privacy of customer information fell behind schedule.
CBS News analysis found that the deadline for final security plans slipped three times from May 6 to July 16. Security assessments to be finished June 7 slid to August 16 and then August 23. The final, required top-to-bottom security tests never got done.
The House Oversight Committee released an Obama administration memo that shows four days before the launch, the government took an unusual step. It granted itself a waiver to launch the website with "a level of uncertainty ... deemed as a high (security) risk."
Agency head Marilyn Tavenner accepted the risk and "mitigation" measures like frequent testing and a dedicated security team. But three other officials signed a statement saying that "does not reduce the risk" of launching October 1.
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TRhe website is the LEAST of the problems with Obamacare. In the end we will find it was 1% of the problems.
I did the security evaluation for one of the state exchanges to the govt. All in all they had everything in place.
One funny part though, I wanted to look at system logs and they said they couldn’t provide them because the system wasn’t in production yet so it wasn’t producing any logs.
Any server thats turned on produces log files. This was two weeks before go live.
Does not matter if a citizen uses the web site (if they can) or a phone call or a SEIU-ACORN navigator all their data ends up in the same unsecured place and is vulnerable to hackers.
Does this assert, or strongly imply that the Federal government can grant itself a "waiver" (i.e. immunity) for violations of criminal laws?
REALLY?
Wasn’t that special .... they gave themselves a waiver for the mandatory security requirements.
We don't need no steenking security!
All your identity are belong to us.
And the Nigerians.
And Lithuanians.
Nope. Illegal. FISMA.
It’s now the job of Congress to provide oversight. Rescind all of it.
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