CAST Defends the Defenders
Posted By Jonathan Bloom on December 20, 2011 | CAST News
From the Pentagon to the Department of Energy, government organizations have been hard hit this year by IT systems outages, performance issues and security failures, most of which have stemmed from structural quality issues. But as bleak as this may sound, the good news is that these problems seem to have served as a wake-up call.
The Department of Homeland Security has already taken steps to begin addressing software structural quality issues by acknowledging they exist and bringing in IT leaders who can help them spot issues and fix them. Similarly, the U.S. Air Force announced in October that it had certified CAST’s Application Intelligence Platform (AIP) to review its systems and applications and detect structural quality issues.
Now joining the effort to combat structural quality problems that assault performance and security of IT systems, the United States Army Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS) has also recruited CAST’s AIP. PEO EIS provides infrastructure and information management systems to the U.S. Army. It develops, acquires and deploys tactical and management information technology systems and products, while supporting the critical enterprise-wide Army ERP, Financial and Logistics systems that enable everything from supply provisioning to personnel management of troops.
The PEO EIS plans to use AIP to optimize enterprise application performance and stability and to manage the structural quality of critical software systems proactively. In addition to optimizing the performance of mission-critical application software used by the U.S. Army, CAST AIP will also augment the program’s delivery governance, drive down maintenance costs and increase the reactivity of the Army’s applications to new requirements.
Tags: application failure, Application Quality, application security, automated analysis and measurement, Government, Software Development, Software Quality, structural quality, U.S. Army
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Posted by Jonathan Bloom
Jonathan is an experienced writer with over 17 years in the technology industry. Jon has written more than 500 journal and magazine articles and other materials that have been published throughout the U.S. and Canada. He has expertise in a wide-range of subjects within the IT industry including software development, enterprise software, mobile, database, security, BI, SaaS/Cloud, Health Care IT and Sustainable Technology. Jon holds a B.A. in History from Gettysburg College. He enjoys attending sporting events, cooking, studying American history and listening to Bruce Springsteen music.
2 Responses to “CAST Defends the Defenders”
I wish the Department of Homeland Security did not have to “begin taking steps to address the presence of software structural quality issues”. These are probably inevitable but as such they should be taken into account and taken constantly care of. Am I missing something here?
Mikey, thanks for the comment. I wish you were missing something here, but as noted in previous blogs the government’s efforts to plan for cyber warfare have so far been met with conflicting and unfinished efforts. The Department of Homeland Security’s interest in the wake of the DoD contractor hack in March (which was not revealed until July) demonstrates one of the first consolidated efforts to address things and hopefully will find success where other efforts have either failed or stalled.