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Health industry company sues to prevent certificate revocation
: Wed, 31 July 2024 | permalink | No comments It’s not often that a company is willing to make a sworn statement to a court about how its IT practices are incompatible with the needs of the Internet, but when they do… it’s popcorn time. The Combatants In the red corner, weighing in at… nah, I’m not going to do that schtick.
The plaintiff in the case is Alegeus Technologies, LLC, a Delaware Corporation that, according to their filings, “is a leading provider of a business-tobusiness, white-label funding and payment platform for healthcare carriers and third-party administrators to administer consumer-directed employee benefit programs”. Not being subject to the US’ bonkers health care system, I have only a passing familiarity with the sorts of things they do, but presumably it involves moving a lot of money around, which is sometimes important. A complicating factor in all this is that, only a touch over a month ago, Google Chrome announced the removal of another CA, Entrust, from its own trust store program, citing “a pattern of compliance failures, unmet improvement commitments, and the absence of tangible, measurable progress in response to publicly disclosed incident reports”.
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