DevSecOps

• Cybersecurity
• DevSecOps
• Zero Trust

DHS and CISA want to lead the federal register and private industry by example.

• Data
• DevSecOps

VA is leveraging new platforms and services to provide better and faster care to veterans.

The U.S. Air Force and Department of Veterans Affairs have a lot in common when it comes to DevSecOps practices — including how vital knowledge sharing has been to successful adoption across the agencies.

VA, USCIS and CMS tech leads are streamlining processes in an effort to enhance security practices.

Federal and industry leaders say DevSecOps is enabling better and faster services for IT teams.

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To successfully execute a DevSecOps strategy, put the customer first. Leaders at the Department of Homeland Security, Air Force and the Department of Veterans Affairs agree.

Despite potential for pandemic-induced disruptions, the Department of Homeland Security’s IT modernization strategy accelerated in 2020. The agency already moved about 75% of its network traffic to a new enterprise cloud-based network, and it hopes to finish the transition from legacy IT systems to the new network by early spring, said Deputy CIO (and current acting CIO) Beth Cappello.

When U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services CIO Bill McElhaney assumed his position in March 2018, IT offices within each directorate were very siloed across the agency. Repetitive processes and excess IT spending impeded mission delivery speed and inhibited effectiveness and efficiency.

Several agencies are aiming to deliver IT and security at speed across their organizations by adopting strategies from the military and revamping cybersecurity training.

With the federal government increasingly embracing modern approaches to software development like Agile and DevOps, acquisition specialists like those at General Services Administration's 18F digital services agency see great benefits in applying more flexible contracting methods in order to improve product design and development in the long run.

Accommodating the mass shift to telework at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic is just one challenge Department of Homeland Security executives faced in 2021.