Medicaid MITA: Innovative COTS Solutions for IT Risk Management

This paper provides an overview of the MITA Technical Architecture and discusses key areas of potential contribution to implementation of this framework from one the world's leading IT security and infrastructures software solution providers, Symantec. The goal of this paper is to facilitate discussion and familiarization of the Symantec Commercial Off-the-Shelf (COTS) offerings for those who find themselves charged with the implementation of anew MITA aligned Medicaid enterprise. Symantec understands that MITA is helping to foster integrated business and IT transformation across the Medicaid enterprise, putting business needs first in order to improve the administration of the Medicaid program, focusing on cost control, and is intended to improve interoperability for state Medicaid organizations.