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Threats such as ransomware and threat actors such as adversarial nation states have agencies worried about the confidentiality of their data and the continuity of their operations.
With a number of rapid-paced deadlines to keep them moving forward, agencies need to figure out, in a hurry, how to achieve a zero trust security posture. That’s why Red Hat recently acquired StackRox, a Kubernetes native, runtime analysis cybersecurity application that can allow agencies to monitor the current behavior of their systems, tailor security controls and policy accordingly and integrate and enforce policy into new or existing workflows.
One of the greatest challenges in public sector IT is keeping up the pace of delivery needed to meet the needs of citizens and leadership. Developing solutions in concert with industry can help the public sector unlock capabilities it might not have access to otherwise, and better satisfy the needs of its constituents.
Mundane and often repetitive tasks can take a lot of time out of an employee’s day. Automating those tasks allows workers to put their focus elsewhere. Automation can be the perfect job satisfaction and innovation tool if workers can use their time on things that they enjoy and allow them to be creative.
Agencies making their cloud migration have to invest in their people if they want to make the journey a successful one.
“There's this massive influx of new applications that need to be deployed, new sets of data. Yet the IT admins aren’t really growing at the same kind of rate. So because of that, the idea is you need to start adopting more automation to really kind of bridge that gap,” said Garrett Clark, director Ansible GTM at Red Hat.
Serverless computing is having a moment. Although it’s been around for several years, recent shifts away from proprietary models toward open source have built momentum. Similarly, the standardization of containers, especially with Kubernetes, has opened up new possibilities and use cases, as well as fueled innovation.
It’s strategically important to begin experimenting with edge computing in space now.
This discussion with Hillery Hunter of IBM and Stephanie Chiras of Red Hat is part of Federal News Network's DoD Cloud Exchange.
The Defense Department has nearly 90 pages of guidance that defines what DevSecOps for the DoD. Red Hat recently took this guidance and developed REDSORD, a reference implementation of their trusted software supply chain specifically for DoD customers.
Damien Eversmann, staff solutions architect at Red Hat, said many companies are now looking at automation as a way to fill in holes in their continuity of operations plans.
Red Hat recently delivered updates to OpenShift Container Platform that enables deployment of a small, 3-Node footprint.
Jason Corey, the senior director for emerging technologies at Red Hat, said the pandemic has brought a sense of urgency to agency digital transformation efforts like few other events have done before.
This program provides a progress report on health IT in government.