Each year, Red Hat surveys IT decision-makers about the state of enterprise open source. And the company surprisingly encounters one or two results that it didn’t expect in the survey results, despite its thousands of interactions with IT professionals throughout…
King County Uses Azure to Help Secure Resident Health Data
King County is Washington State’s most populous county, with more than 2.2 million residents. For the Department of Community and Human Services, ensuring that these residents have access to critical social and health services is top of mind. Hampered by…
City of Frisco Modernizes its Technology Landscape to Drive Collaboration
It’s not easy managing the evolving technology needs of one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States. But over the past decade, the City of Frisco, Texas, has transformed its digital approach from a disjointed set of products to…
Four AppSec Threats Facing Healthcare Organizations
The industries and organizations that many perceive to have the highest cybersecurity risk are often the “usual suspects.” They include financial services and technology – industries that have a lot of resources, or proprietary, high-value data that can make a…
Happy Holidays from the GovDevSecOpsHub
When the calendars rolled over from 2020 to 2021, many Americans breathed a sigh of relief, anxious that a new year would spell the end of many of the large problems plaguing our country. Unfortunately, things didn’t really turn out…
Preparing for a Post-Pandemic World with Automation and Modern Applications
COVID-19 compounded existing challenges for governments, colleges, universities, and teaching hospitals. These organizations were already struggling to meet rising expectations with aging infrastructures and more complex IT, and those struggles only intensified when the pandemic changed the ways in which…
Heading Off Risk: A Unified Approach to Application Security and Delivery
The U.S. federal government is developing applications and digital services as fast as it can to meet urgent needs. In addition to contending with accelerated deployment schedules, accelerated ATO, and demands for complex functionality, federal development teams must still perform…
Value Stream Thinking – The Why Behind DevSecOps
Value stream thinking is not a revolutionary concept. Looking at famous companies like the Ford or Toyota motor companies, it’s easy to see many famous examples of maximizing value and minimizing waste. Each has found success, and each has its…
Making Software Audits Easier by Establishing Audit-Ready Pipelines
Software audits play an essential role in ensuring the quality and performance of the applications that government agencies and contractors are developing. Audits are essential for ensuring applications are secure, identifying vulnerabilities that may be – or have already been…
Embracing Security-as-Code and the DevSecOps Transformation
Organizations today are facing a unique challenge, specifically how to balance security with speed. While many may view those two as opposed values, there is a growing campaign to revise and revisit that assumption. As DevOps rises in popularity, this…