Project Profile - Department of Veteran’s Affairs (VA)

Federated IT security engineers were responsible for the nationwide deployment and integration of a wireless security solution to 172 VA hospitals securing patient data transmitted via the BCMA (BarCode Medication Administration) wireless networks.

The VA is the largest non-DoD federal agency in the government with over 230,000 employees. It operates 172 hospitals and over 300 Community Outpatient Clinics and Veteran Centers across the United States and US territories. During the course of the project, Federated IT security engineers conducted approximately 165 risk assessments on nationwide VA hospitals, built over 200 Access Control Servers, installed and configured the Secure Wireless Gateway appliance on the backbone of hundreds of networks, installed thousands of Remote Client software applications, tested the 3DES encrypted solution across hundreds of Wireless Access Ports (WAPs), updated or created security policy manuals where appropriate, and trained hundreds of VA Systems Engineers on the utilization and sustainment of the wireless solution.