“Health and Human Services Department recently unveiled a proof of concept that employs blockchain technology to securely track log files that agencies are required to report by the Homeland Security Department’s Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation program. The test case, which demonstrates how emerging tech can be used to boost security postures across federal agencies, comes a little over half a year since HHS was awarded the federal government’s first authority to operate a blockchain-powered acquisition system.”
“In a conversation with Nextgov, Oki Mek, chief technology officer in the agency’s division of acquisition, detailed how human-centered design, an incremental approach and strong leadership shaped the project, as well as the agency’s vision to embrace emerging technologies to solve business problems like never before…”
“He said every system in the federal government—whether it’s an acquisition, finance or mission-critical system—generates different logs that are critical to the CDM tracking process, and provides important data that can even serve as evidence during investigations. However, through conducting the human-centered experiment in collaboration with IT services provider Octo, Mek’s team found that many HHS insiders expressed “pain points” regarding specific logging and monitoring issues…” Read the full article here.
Source: How HHS Got Workforce Buy-In for Its Blockchain Pilot – By Brandi Vincent, July 26, 2019. Nextgov.
