Workers say that health systems and human services are at risk of collapse
One of the team cleared of HHS gave more than 100 million dollars, including important cyber security licenses. The company also manages the renewal of contracts for hundreds of specialized contractors who carry out important tasks for the department, including dozens of cyber security contractor working at the CSIRC Response Center (CSIRC) – the main component of the Cyber Security Program, which is under the supervision of the Chief Information Security Chief.
While all HHS agencies have their own cyber security and IT agencies, CSIRC is the only one to see throughout the network. The center, based in Atlanta, controls the entire HHS network and has the task of preventing, detecting, reporting and responding to cyber security in HHS.
The source says, “This is a nerve center.” “These direct links with DHS, CISA, Defense Health Agency and Information Society.”
Contractors cover an eight -hour three -hour shift each day and monitor the network for any possible cut or attack from inside or outside the network. These contracts expire on June 21. While there is time to renew, it is unclear who is allowed to do this or knows how, since the entire monitoring office no longer works in HHS.
The approval of this threat is the decision of the Public Service Office to terminate the lease for CSIRC in Atlanta on December 31, 2025.
Many of the cyber security and supervision tools that contractors use to monitor networks are also due to renewal in the coming months.
If the situation is not taken into consideration, “it will be completely open to foreign actors in the world’s largest databases with all our public health information, our sensitive drug test information at NIH or FDA or the mental health records of various organizations,” this source claims that other sources speak of stone.
In the weeks leading up to RIF, some administrative staff interacts with the so -called efficiency operators of the Foreign Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including Clark Minor, a software engineer who worked in Palantier for more than a decade, and has recently been installed as a senior information manager.
They said, as one of the employees described what he did in Ocio, they found that partially – who Résumé Online shows no experience in the federal government – it appears to be affected by the HHS scale, the agency, which costs more than a quarter of the federal costs in 2024, and almost a number
According to two sources, the Minor has not guided the transfer for the remaining HHS staff.
The minor did not respond to the Wired comment asks.
Some internal systems are decomposing, according to what they are still working on HHS. One employee, who facilitates travel for HHS employees, says: “RIF” returned the federal trip to the process that existed before the first electronic travel system in 2004. “
