{"id":184,"date":"2013-04-24T22:18:01","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T03:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.softwareab.net\/wordpress\/?p=184"},"modified":"2013-05-01T13:45:34","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T18:45:34","slug":"184","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.softwareab.net\/wordpress\/184\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;IA Fusion&#8221;: Cut costs \/ improve quality \/ compete better"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.softwareab.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/IA-Fusion-for-a-DoD-Contractor-fitsi.pdf\">Click here to download &#8220;IA Fusion for a DoD Contractor&#8221; now!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a 2011 paper presented to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fitsi.org\/\">FITSI.org<\/a> and addresses an ambitious topic for me to cover: &#8220;IA Fusion&#8221;. My approach explores how DoD and Federal Government contractors can cut costs while simultaneously improving overall quality and minimizing the chance for a &#8220;stop work&#8221; order from the Government customer.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Cybersecurity measures to address ongoing attack vectors come at greater and greater expense (budgeted at\u00c2\u00a0$3.2 billion back in fiscal 2010), even as DoD and the federal government are being pushed hard to cut costs. OMB&#8217;s call to \u00e2\u20ac\u0153turnaround or terminate at least one-third of poorly performing projects&#8221; speaks tellingly to the cost and expense\u00c2\u00a0involved in cybersecurity certifications: a contractor must deliver secured systems expeditiously or risk being\u00c2\u00a0tagged as a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153poor performer.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>This paper provides a roadmap called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153IA Fusion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d for a DoD contractor seeking to cut costs even while improving IA. As Professor John Savage of Brown University testified to Congress, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it is better to build in security rather than try to add it after the fact\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153hardware and software vendors and network providers should be required to conform to reasonable cyber security guidelines.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Decisions by individual contributors are the linchpin of IA; IA Fusion helps an organization to translate IA policies into IA practices at the ground level.<\/p>\n<p>IA Fusion gives an organization the competitive edge necessary to survive and thrive in today\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s demanding DoD business environment by integrating IA throughout the software development process. Moreover, IA Fusion\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s holistic management, education, and measurement approaches can be extended to projects across the organization \u00e2\u20ac\u201c even those projects not directly related to the DoD.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here to download &#8220;IA Fusion for a DoD Contractor&#8221; now! This is a 2011 paper presented to FITSI.org and addresses an ambitious topic for me to cover: &#8220;IA Fusion&#8221;. 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