Daily many 1979 cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. And is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. At a Senate Hearing on government waste federal officials testified about ways to save money by preventing fraud and removing a necessary regulation. Senator john johnson shares Homeland Security and Government Affairs committee. This is an hour and 0 minutes. 40 minutes. All right. [silence] morning this hearing will come to order. I want to welcome my witnesses, appreciate your time, your testimony, and look forward to your oral testimony and answering pretty interesting questions. I frequently say from this podium that general and Inspector Generals are, you know, our goal two agencies in government. Doing so much to route out and identify and eliminate ways fraud abuse and prals which this hearing is about is reports by gao that started with a simple amendment offering and by senator colburn in increase in debt ceiling someth
Encryption solution on the i. R. S. Side. We are working with the department of ed. Mr. Hurd how will it help with authentication if you have a user that has stolen credentials . Ms. Garza the solution that we had looked at was not satisfactory to provide the useability of the application so we have moved to an encryption so unless that mr. Hurd that doesnt answer the question. The question is, how does encryption on the back end help with authentication of an attacker that is using stolen credentials . Ms. Garza it does not improve authentication. What it does do is not allow the data to be revealed to someone other than the actual applicant. Mr. Hurd but if you have stolen credentials and youre not able then youre able to spoof that you have the credentials, what are you doing to prevent that from happening . Ms. Garza so there are a set of keys that on the i. R. S. Thats only shared with the department of education. So as the applicant comes in and releases tells us to release the d
The key word is trying to come up with a solution is not sure we have arrived at that. After the october 2016 discovery that the dit could be vulnerable the irs is monitoring for any suspicious activity, we engaged with our friends. And asked them, and suspicious activity in january. And an incident in february, multilayer Defense Mechanisms, one of the mechanisms is notification to the address record for the individual. That led us to identify the we had an issue, we were able to find that in fact there is fraud that has taken place and immediately shut down the application. It is not discovered by accident. It was a notice generated from the taxpayer. The taxpayer came in and notified us. Taking responsibly for the irs, and the applications face. Please her young peoples lives at stake, to fit their unraveling that. The gentleman yields back. The chair would like to recognize the gentlelady from new jersey for five minutes. Good morning to all of you. In september the Inspector Gener
The key word is trying to come up with a solution is not sure we have arrived at that. After the october 2016 discovery that the dit could be vulnerable the irs is monitoring for any suspicious activity, we engaged with our friends. And asked them, and suspicious activity in january. And an incident in february, multilayer Defense Mechanisms, one of the mechanisms is notification to the address record for the individual. That led us to identify the we had an issue, we were able to find that in fact there is fraud that has taken place and immediately shut down the application. It is not discovered by accident. It was a notice generated from the taxpayer. The taxpayer came in and notified us. Taking responsibly for the irs, and the applications face. Please her young peoples lives at stake, to fit their unraveling that. The gentleman yields back. The chair would like to recognize the gentlelady from new jersey for five minutes. Good morning to all of you. In september the Inspector Gener
Good morning, were placed to welcome back a good friend, dr. David shulkin. She last time you appeared before our committee you were in the virginia undersecretary for health and now kicked upstairs after a nance confirmation vote and that says a lot in this political environment. So congratulations. You have a great background in the philadelphia area, just learned you were in marstown and you certainly bring lat of experience to the job and although im sure these days that the challenges are very dawning for you daunting for you. This hearing is unusual. Rather than the typical Budget Hearing we have at this time of year, were limited to a discussion of the skinny budget, the skinny budget materials the onb sent to the hill in march. They twopage entry for the va doesnt give us much to go on in terms of Program Priorities but the skinny budget gives us the administration is proposing a 4. 4 billion 6 funding increase for the agency and addition theres 2. 9 billion proposed in new man