Building A Modern Security Program
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DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Fundamentals
The DoD Enterprise DevSecOps Fundamentals, along with other supporting guidance available at
https://dodcio.defense.gov/library/, provides education, best practices, and implementation and
operational guidance for information technology (IT) capability providers, IT capability consumers,
product teams, and Authorizing Officials (AO). It is intended to build a community that understands the
realm of the possible and is motivated to pursue the possible to enable a warfighting force strengthened
by software.
The State of DevSecOps within the Department of Defense
Since the release of the DIB SWAP report in 2019, Software Is Never Done: Refactoring the
Acquisition Code for Competitive Advantage, the Department of Defense (DoD) has focused on
transforming our software development and acquisition practices. The core of this transformation
is DevSecOps, a process that breaks down silos, inculcates security, and rapidly delivers software
into production following the best practices of modern technology companies. Over the past
5 years, DoD has made significant strides in adopting DevSecOps practices. There are over 50
software factories using DevSecOps to deliver code into production, learning how to incorporate
these practices into the high-stakes DoD environment and providing templates and patterns for
generalized transition.