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Issues. >> there are no speeches here today? thats -- >> does the secretary wish to respond briefly? >> sir, i would say this document is a document signed by administrator tavenner which discusses mitigation strategies for security that are ongoing and upgraded in an authorization to operate on a permanent basis will not be signed until the mitigation strategies are satisfied. it is under way right now. but daily and weekly monitoring and testing is under way. >> there are people using this sys...

Date, we had regular meetings with not only a team at cms, but administrators involved. i was made aware that we were testing. as we found problems, we were fixing those problems. i think there is a cgi report at mid-august identifying some problems. and between august and october, that became the pump list for cgi to fix those problems. thats why you test. >> now, in the "washington post" on october 21st, there was an article that said about a month before the exchange opened a testing group of...

Third week in september. each of the component parts -- >> right. >> -- was test and independently validated. >> im sorry. all of those work, though right? they told us last week that their individual modules were tested and met specification. do you concur with that? >> i do concur with the testing that was done. >> it was the end to end. which is why some of us thought we should delay the very collapse that now is upon us. the second piece here gets back to the "washington post" which i realiz...

>> you have a tab there. go to tab 2. while youre looking ield read. dated september 27th and it is to marilyn tavenner. let me just a couple of pieces here. there are inherent security risks with not having all cold test understand a single environment. finally the system requires rapid development in release of hot fixes and patches so it is not always available or stable during the duration of the testing. secondly, the security contractor has not been able to test all of the security control...

Although, i would suggest that the website has never crashed. it is functional, but at a very slow speed and very low reliability and has continued to function. having said that, they paired down some of the features feeling that it would be better to load them in later. one was the shop and browse feature. another one was the spanish version of the website and the medicaid transfers. all three of those issues were pair the down in september to not overload the system. >> last week there was tes...

Has not happened today. why? because youre constantly adding new code every night to protect the functionality of the system. you have exposed millions of americans because you all believe it was an acceptable risk. dont you think you had the obligation to tell the american people that were going to put you in this system but beware, your information is likely to be vulnerable? would you commit today to shut down the system and do an end to end security test so that -- >> no, sir. if you read th...

Before the committee. you and i both know how important this issue is to all americans that we get it right. i hope you can appreciate were trying to understand what we missed along the way. and one of the things that bothered me was the letter that was sent from your agency to the gao back in june 6th. ield read in part, were in the final stage in finalizing the ip infrastructu infrastructure. hhs is extremely confident that on october 1 the marketplace will open on schedule and millions of ame...