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Several weeks, peter, has the security concerns that have been brought up by lawmakers, have those been addressed with the website? >> yes. she says the data hub that verifies the identity was fully tested ahead of time and is secure. when it comes to the exchanges, she said consumers can trust them but that the testing is ongoing. >> any system that is as large is inherently risky. we continue to monitor the system and have had no serious issues. security testing never ends. it will never end and it will not for this system or any other large system. >> in talking about traffic at the website...

This document is an authority to operate memorandum, to operate the federally facilitated marketplace for six months and implement a security mitigation plan. this document, as i understand it, describes security testing for healthcare.gov. it says that security testing of the marketplace was ongoing since its inception and into september of this year. in fact it says that, quote, throughout the three rounds of security control assessment testing, all of the security controls have been tested on different versions of the system. that's good news. but the bad news is that it goes on to say that...

Independent security expert is performing security testing on the code that powers the website on an on going basis. is that correct? >> that is correct and miter did an assessment of the system, gave us a preliminary report. they are in the process of posting their final report. that did not raise flags about going ahead and the mitigation strategy was put in place to make sure that we had a temporary authority to operate in place while the mitigation was going on and then a permanent authority to operate will be signed. >> finally, do you have confidence in these and other measures you are t...

Have been lucky and had some failed attempts. but hijacking airplanes remaine the unholy grail for al qaeda and its allies. think of all the may hem caused on 9/11 from a few airplanes. think of what you can do the evil creative ways to use an airplane. god forbid crash one into a nuclear reactor. there are dry runs going on. >> taste a scary thought and reports have raised the question, is this security testing security in is that what we're saying rather than would-be terrorists? >> i think it's probing for weaknesses in our security, and think about it. if they were god forbid successful, t...

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