On the 26th July, Oki Mek, Chief Technology Officer for the U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Department’s acquisition arm, detailed the agency’s approach to blockchain technology.
As Ledger Insights reported in January, HHS was the
first federal agency to be given the green light on developing blockchain projects. The “authority to operate” (ATO) paved the way for last month’s
proof of concept for cybersecurity. In collaboration with tech firm Octo, HHS has come up with a system to track and verify government log files.
Every single system in federal government generates these logs which are reported to Homeland Security, explained Mek in an article by
Nextgov. The logs account for a huge number of individual files which, particularly in HHS, are challenging to keep track of. Sometimes the files are overwritten to save space, and there’s potential for them to be tampered with.
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