The Department of Health and Human Services is still figuring out how to implement zero-trust security across its divisions’ many applications, according to the executive director for app and platform solutions.
Speaking at FedTalks presented by FedScoop on Wednesday, George Chambers said the department continues to work on making information on who’s accessing its network, using what equipment, from what location actionable across apps to enable continuous monitoring…
Instead leadership must provide some standards for managing multiple technologies departmentwide. Requiring a single standard for, say, identity management would be “naive,” Chambers said.
Different missions require different platforms, so HHS is investing in low-code and no-code solutions. But that creates other complications Chambers is trying to address by simultaneously buying application programming interface and access management tools, as well as standing up multiple cloud environments… Read the full article here.
