The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has produced several publications addressing the different components of information technology security within the NIST 800 computer security series. Compliance across this entire NIST 800 series is expected for all internal and external service providers of government entities - such as the DoD federal agencies.
In the previous article about the coding process, we covered developers using secure coding practices and how to secure the central code repository that represents the single source of truth. After coding is complete, developers move to the build and test processes of the Continuous Integration (CI) phase. These processes use automation to compile code and test it for errors, vulnerabilities, license conformity, unexpected behavior, and of course bugs in the application.
While the COVID-19 pandemic brought much of the world to work together to advance medical research and slow the spread of the disease, it may be of little surprise that cyber threat actors took advantage of the pandemic for their own personal gain. While all industries can be affected by a cybersecurity incident, the nature of the health and human services industry’s mission poses unique challenges.