US AIR FORCE
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The US Air Force has been in the software business for some time , but until the past few years was almost solely leveraging legacy , waterfall software development practices . “ Even as we adopted agile development , we were still stymied by a ridiculously arduous cybersecurity accreditation process that was ultimately not relevant to the modern technologies in use . How could we ensure the code being delivered was safe and secure , but could at the same time be delivered at the speed of relevance ?” She credits the importance of partners such as Pivotal and others who had already found the solution to part of that conundrum . “ We were fortunate to have such great partners , who had already figured out how to develop safe and secure code rapidly . We joined forces to create a secure Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment ( CI / CD ) pipeline and adopted the best practices of the DevOps Research Assessment . Our teams worked hard to constantly improve and we used penetration testing to assess our code in production as well . The premise is
APRIL 2020