The Obamacare website’s lack of security violates Federal law

 Considering the fact that Barack Obama picks and chooses which Federal laws he will enforce and which ones he will ignore, this news should come as no surprise.

  It has been well established, at least in the blogoshere, that the Obamacare website had no security built in and is considered to be a hacker’s paradise, but now we are learning that the healthcare website might actually be in violation of Federal security laws:

The bureaucracy tasked with Obamacare implementation may be violating a law that requires government agencies to keep private information safe.

Under the the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), the Department of Health and Human Services’ Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is required to have an “Authority to Operate,” or ATO. In order to receive an ATO, new information tech systems must perform a set of tests, including “Security Control Assessments” (SCA).

But according to CMS’s 2014 budget request, no such security assessment took place. The Federal Healthcare Marketplace website was rolled out without full end­-to­-end testing.

Indeed, the large number of new systems created because of Obamacare created a backlog of testing. CMS could not complete its required security. Failing to complete the required means no ATO, and hence a violation of federal law under FISMA.

FISMA was enacted in 2002. Under FISMA, federal agencies are required: “to develop, document, and implement an agency­-wide program to provide information security for the information and information systems that support the operations and assets of the agency, including those provided or managed by another agency, contractor, or other source.”

Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services is responsible for the oversight and implementation of the Federal Healthcare Marketplace website and associated systems.

  Of course Barack Obama has never been one to let the laws get in the way of his radical agenda, so why would this be any different? The end justifies the means…..