Now that the Information Technology and Security communities have had time to digest what’s going on with Healthcare.gov, they are starting to think about what the “glitches” mean from a security perspective. For example, here’s some coverage in eWeek. And I’ve been asked by several other publications to provide my thoughts on the site’s security.
Ironically, the glitches may be the best security tool yet, per the article:
“In fact, the site’s stability issues and lack of usability to this point may be its best security: Even hackers haven’t been able to get in long enough to make it work,” Carpenter (VP of Strategy at AccessData) said.
As I point out in the article, a system as complex and interconnected as this one is, with as much data as it contains, is highly susceptible to attack, exploitation and breach of data. The technical difficulties that the site has suffered through do not hold out much hope that security has been implemented without “glitches”, either.
A site this complex, …
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