The Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) conducts security audits on healthcare organizations participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). Following the massive HIPAA breach at Anthem., Inc last month, the OIG decided to conduct a new information technology security audit on the insurer. The OIG Information Technology security audits set out to determine if security vulnerabilities exist that could potentially be used by hackers to gain access to servers and internal computer systems. The audits are not comprehensive, instead that samples a small proportion of the organizations servers to help build an overall picture of data security and whether sufficient steps have been taken to prevent hackers from conducting malicious cyber attacks.
