Security for Medicaid & HCBS Platforms: DevSecOps Patterns That Pass Audits

If your platform handles PHI, payroll, and billing data, security is product. Here are the DevSecOps patterns we implement for NJ CareOps platforms.

Identity & access

• SSO with MFA; short-lived sessions; device posture checks.
• RBAC & ABAC for program, role, and site separation.
• Break-glass accounts with alerting.

Data protection

• Encryption in transit & at rest with managed keys.
• Secrets management with rotation and no plain-text in repos.
• Backups & immutability with tested restore runbooks.

Platform hygiene

• IaC + CI/CD with policy-as-code gates.
• SBOM & supply-chain scanning; signed artifacts.
• Observability: logs, metrics, traces with alerting and retention policies.

Auditability

• Immutable event logs for time, visits, and corrections.
• Change history for configs and roles.
• Exportable evidence for payers and regulators.

Incident readiness

• Runbooks for access revocation, data exposure, and vendor compromise.
• Tabletop exercises with program and IT leaders.
• Post-incident review and hardening.

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