“Early in 2020, as a pandemic prepared to wreak havoc across the U.S., the Department of Health and Human Services was doing more than its name implies. It’s non-human side would be a major part of the equation in dealing with an environment almost no one really imagined: Large-scale telework.”
“’We upgraded circuit capacity of the HHS network,’ HHS Chief Information Officer José L. Arrieta said on Federal Monthly Insights — EIS. ‘We invested in improving our firewalls and improving our VPN capability across HHS.’”
“Arrieta’s department is huge, and he likes to say ‘we’re one of the largest network surfaces on the face of the Earth.’ There is a built-in resiliency and redundancy in the HHS network, allowing it to deal with data-sharing traffic or a large cyber-attack…”
“The department has not awarded its enterprise infrastructure solutions services contract yet, as the HHS modernization drive incorporates cybersecurity, as well as the circuits and bandwidth…” Read the full article here.
Source: What’s behind the ‘million windows and doors’ of the HHS modernization – By Peter Musurlian, July 28, 2020. Federal News Network.
