Why is it important to move from reactive compliance to always compliant? Traditional approaches to ensuring standards compliance, including federal regulations like FIPS 140-2, FISMA and FedRAMP, involve slow, manual post-build security scanning as part of the authority-to-operate process. With different gates of approval, these processes catch compliance and security defects too late, creating rework and sacrificing operational agility. Prog...

Government agencies across the world are required to share information with others. This includes other agencies, their constituents and even their own departments. But what happens when these groups use different terminologies to describe the same thing? It’s like two people talking in two different languages. Now multiply that by hundreds of potentially different data “languages” and hundreds of data repositories—and...