Department of Health and Human Services Considers Hack the Pentagon Type Program
Posted by: Timothy Weaver on 06/24/2016 02:12 PM [ Comments ]
After the success of the DoD "Hack the Pentagon" program, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is considering a similar project.
Lucia Savage, chief privacy officer at HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology said that such a similar program would have to be altered somewhat in order to meet the stringent privacy requirements in the healthcare field.
“I think that this is a technique that has been found highly valuable in the rest of industry,” she said. “One of the things we are thinking about is how to get this to take root as a security hygiene process within the health care system.”
The ethical hackers who participated in the DoD program found 138 vulnerabilities during the month long program.
Source: SCMagazine
“I think that this is a technique that has been found highly valuable in the rest of industry,” she said. “One of the things we are thinking about is how to get this to take root as a security hygiene process within the health care system.”
The ethical hackers who participated in the DoD program found 138 vulnerabilities during the month long program.
Source: SCMagazine
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