It’s Time for Government Solution Providers to Plot a Path to the Cloud

While offering a service or solution that still operates on-premise, on bare metal may seem as archaic and old-school as inserting a CD into a stereo to listen to music, it’s still quite common. Especially in the public sector, where…

Pete Chestna, Checkmarx CISO, on the Technologies Enabling a Continuous ATO

With software becoming increasingly essential to today’s government and military, and digital transformation initiatives among the highest priorities within the IT departments of government organizations, there is a strong desire across the government to develop and implement new applications quickly.…

Shifting Application Security Left Requires Changing Both Culture and Tools

In late August, the Advanced Technology Academic Research Center (ATARC) sponsored a Webinar in conjunction with Checkmarx and Invicti entitled, “Shifting Security Left with DevSecOps.” This virtual panel discussion featured prominent application development leaders and experts from both the government…

Seven reasons why federal agencies need a unified approach to application security

Today’s government agencies and military organizations are developing applications and digital services as fast as they can to meet urgent needs. This rapid pace of application development only accelerated in 2020 when government IT departments and application development teams were…

Four Best Practices for Secure App Development in AWS

This article was originally featured on the Checkmarx blog. Click HERE to read the original in its entirety. The advantages of cloud-native applications in an AWS deployment are well understood. AWS delivers flexibility, scalability, usability, and so much more. But,…

Government AppDev Leaders Explain the Benefits and Risks of APIs and IaC

On Thursday, May 20, the Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology – a cybersecurity-focused think tank – brought together leaders from across the federal government and military to discuss an incredibly important topic – the benefits and risk factors that new…

The Up-Hill Climb of Modern Application Security

According to the analyst firm Gartner, “Over 70 percent of security vulnerabilities exist at the application layer, not the network layer.” This number was even higher in findings by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which found that…

Two New Attack Vectors Creating an AppSec Imperative for Development Teams

As digital transformation initiatives sweep across the government and military, the role of software continues to grow and increase in importance. Today, every government agency and military organization is looking to embrace applications that can make their workforce more effective,…

Developer Spotlight – DevSecOps Helps goTenna Deliver Secure Communications to the Military

DevSecOps is rapidly gaining traction within the federal government and with the IT solution providers and contractors that service both the federal government and military. And for very good reason. Evolving away from traditional forms of application development – such…

 

 

 

We launched GovDevSecOpsHub to focus on the next evolution of application development, DevSecOps, which brings cybersecurity teams and tools into the development process sooner so that applications are more secure and safeguarded against cyber threats.

In  GovDevSecOpsHub we’ll look at the evolution from traditional software and application development to the DevOps model. We’ll talk about the importance of moving from DevOps to DevSecOps. We’ll highlight the technologies and cultural changes necessary to make this shift happen. And we’ll profile government organizations and executives that are the “boots on the ground” as the government pivots towards the DevSecOps model.