Dark Wolf Solutions , founded in 2013 , has emerged as a leader in the Federal Government for Agile software development , DevSecOps implementation and execution , and cybersecurity expertise and thought leadership . We partner with federal and commercial customers to : deliver software , tools , and services that support mission needs ; develop and integrate secure , resilient , and scalable solutions tailored to our customers ' operational environments ; and instill technical best practices , processes , and policies . Among these efforts is our ongoing support to current and forthcoming software factories and solution centers , where we support a gamut of activities to include cybersecurity assessment , cloud adoption , and rapid development and deployment .

As trusted partners to our customers , our personnel bring technology agnostic expertise and experience . We write software using modern programming languages and frameworks and configure and use a variety of industry-standard tools to achieve security and automation . We deploy to public cloud resources and private cloud infrastructure as well as to on-premise hardware , and we leverage Platform as a Service products to reduce dependence on specific cloud providers . Our efforts often extend across security boundaries and require cross-domain strategies and approaches . We employ security and penetration testing techniques to assess vulnerabilities on-premise and on cloud platforms and to include enterprise hardware as well as mobile and IoT devices .

To fully support this wide array of technologies and environments , we focus heavily on : partnerships with commercial vendors to learn about new products and technologies ; training tailored towards concepts and mindsets that apply across technology stacks ; frequent evaluation of new products supporting development and Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery ( CI / CD ); and Communities of Interest , internally called Practice Packs , around different technical topics and trends . Whereas many in our industry get married to a particular technology or methodology , we encourage our employees to explore and embrace the rapid pace of innovation and technological evolution .

Among our experiences , Dark Wolf is proud to have supported Secretary of Air Force / Office of Information

Dominance and Chief Information Officer " SAF / CIO A6 " in assisting the Kessel Run and SpaceCAMP DevSecOps software factories with achieving Continuous Authority to Operate ( C-ATO ). Our testing revealed three important considerations when assessing security for modern software factories :

Privilege is key Starting design and development efforts from a secure base and adding from there is a much more effective strategy for security than taking a flawed product and attempting to identify and resolve all issues . This is particularly true for container security , where less is more should be the defining theme in building images .

Know your enemy A security strategy should be modeled against the malicious entities most interested in a product . At the same time , know who isn ' t your enemy . Security teams and penetration testers are on your side ; giving them maximum support helps an organization in the long term .

Technical controls without supporting administrative controls are a ticking time bomb Cybersecurity strategies are guaranteed to fall out of effectiveness without human elements of an organization ' s security policy like version control and change management .

We have developed a high-level C-ATO playbook in cooperation with and informed by Authorizing Officials within the Air Force , DoD , and Intelligence Community . We would like to share this with your organization and work together to explore a tailored playbook based upon your mission and needs . We can establish your CI / CD pipeline , safeguard your network , penetration test your infrastructure , and train your teams to rapidly develop secure , enterprise scale applications for your environment . Contact us today - we ' re here to help !

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