From: HealthITSecurity.com
Author Name Patrick Ouellette
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) made news recently when it denied an Associated Press (AP) request for information about HealthCare.Gov security. Though it could have provided some generic details with respect to the HealthCare.Gov security controls, CMS chose to release no information on the controls.
“We concluded that releasing this information would potentially cause an unwarranted risk to consumers’ private information,” CMS spokesman Aaron Albright said in a statement.
There have been some interesting responses since news of the Freedom of Information Act (FOI) denial came out in August. An article on slate.com, for instance, compared the CMS decision to Netflix’s announcement that it was releasing code to two security applications, Scumblr and Sketchy. These apps collect threat data and help the organization stay up to date with the different types of malware out there.
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