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March 31, 2020 By cs

How industry and government can partner for more secure systems

Industry needs to be able to tell government how software was developed and how security measures were integrated into it, a top official at the National Institute of Standards and Technology said March 10.

“Give us some evidence that those security features are actually in place and doing what they’re supposed to do,” said Ron Ross, a fellow at NIST who leads a new DevSecOps project.

Ross, speaking at an Advanced Technology Academic Research Center event on DevOps, said that the future of U.S. national and economic security hinges on industry and government getting the transition to DevOps and DevSecOps, two different software development approaches where collaboration and security considered from the beginning, because they are critical to national and economic security.

“All the work that’s going on now, whether it’s experimental or whether it’s becoming more mature, we need to be able to normalize this type of process so it becomes [something] people would just do routinely — it becomes institutionalized and operationalized across the entire federal government,” Ross said.

Industry, Ross said, is a critical partner in that process. The key is ensuring that customers no longer have to worry about the effectiveness and origin of security controls.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.fifthdomain.com/civilian/2020/03/10/how-industry-and-government-can-partner-for-more-secure-systems/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition planning, control, cybersecurity, DevOps, IT, NIST, security, technology

March 10, 2020 By cs

Agencies struggle with DevOps procurement

DevOps remains a “small pilot effort on a handful of applications” at many federal agencies, in part, because it requires accepting greater ambiguity in the procurement process, according to a new white paper.
Click on the image above to download the DevOps white paper.

ACT-IAC defines DevOps as an organizational philosophy where practices like the agile software development methodology are combined with tools to rapidly deliver IT apps and services.

ACT-IAC’s DevOps Working Group released a white paper last week compiled from survey results and hundreds of conversations with government officials. The paper includes case studies from agencies six agencies: the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, IRS, National Museum of African American History and Culture, National Park Service, and National Science Foundation.

DevOps has agencies seek potential solutions earlier in the development process than traditional procurement, when specific requirements aren’t known, which makes evaluating contracts more challenging, according to the paper.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.fedscoop.com/agencies-devops-procurement-challenges/

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition planning, acquisition workforce, ACT-IAC, agile, DevOps, IT, requirements definition, software acquisition, software development, technology

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