“The Health and Human Services Department’s inspector general has interviewed the ousted leaders of the department’s fledgling cyber operations center as part of a reprisal complaint, the pair’s attorney told Nextgov Thursday.”
“It’s not clear, however, if that means the inspector general has launched a formal investigation into the September incident in which center director Maggie Amato and the department’s former Deputy Chief Information Security Officer Leo Scanlon were abruptly reassigned following an anonymous complaint alleging contracting improprieties.”
“Department CISO Chris Wlaschin, who oversaw the reassignments and later led the Health Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center, or HCCIC, announced his resignation earlier this month…”
“Wlaschin told Nextgov in an interview Monday that his resignation is entirely for personal and family reasons and unrelated to disputes over the HCCIC…The HCCIC, which shares cyber threat information between government and the healthcare sector, was controversial from the beginning…” Read the full article here.
Source: Ousted HHS Cyber Leaders Have Met With Inspector General About A Reprisal Complaint – By Joseph Marks, March 23, 2018. Nextgov.
