Covered California, California’s health insurance marketplace, announced that it has partnered with Deloitte and Google Public Sector to deploy Google Security Operations to secure CalHEERS, the State of California’s health benefits exchange system. By leveraging Google Security Operations, CalHEERS is able to better protect the personal health information (PHI) and personal identifiable information (PII) of Covered California’s thousands of members.
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“Cybersecurity is a top priority for Covered California, and we are committed to ensuring the security and integrity of our CalHEERS system and our consumers’ personal information,” said Kevin Cornish, Chief Information Officer at Covered California. “Google Security Operations, combined with Deloitte’s expertise, has provided us with the tools and capabilities we need to effectively navigate the complex cyber landscape and safeguard our multi-cloud environment.”
The Affordable Care Act of 2010 stipulates that all states must offer residents a Health Benefits Exchange – a central resource for exploring and purchasing health insurance. CalHEERS consolidates the resources where millions of Californians and small businesses can research, compare, check eligibility, and purchase health coverage.
By leveraging Google Security Operations for CalHEERS, Covered California is gaining access to a comprehensive suite of tools and technologies that can help protect its sensitive data and systems. These include advanced threat detection, incident response, and security analytics capabilities. With built-in Gemini AI capabilities, Google Security Operations can help build and run threat searches, summarize the results, and suggest incident remediation. This drastically reduces time to action and unlocks data-driven decisions to serve the community faster.
“We’re excited to continue to partner with Covered California to help the organization protect its members’ data,” said Brent Mitchell, Vice President, Go-to-Market, Google Public Sector. “Google Security Operations offers a powerful and scalable solution that can help government agencies like Covered California stay ahead of the evolving and accelerating threat landscape.”
Google Security Operations provides a full stack security operations center, which helps the CalHEERS team detect, identify, and thwart cybersecurity threats faster than before. Since partnering with Deloitte and deploying Google Security Operations in June of this year, Covered California has seen higher levels of threat intelligence, faster and more efficient resolution, and greater focus on relevant threats.
“We are proud to support Covered California in its mission to provide affordable, high-quality healthcare coverage to Californians while safeguarding the user data and underlying infrastructure of the health insurance exchange,” said Kunal Shah, principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP. “Our collaboration with Google Cloud has enabled us to deliver a solution that meets California’s unique needs, helps it stay ahead of evolving cyberthreats, and maintains compliance with state and federal regulations.”
In April of 2024, Covered California announced that it is using Google Cloud’s AI solution, Document AI, to help streamline the organization’s efforts to provide California residents with affordable, quality health insurance.
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Source – PR Newswire
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