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Immigration Agency Wants to Blend Data Science, Agile and Security

Nextgov: DevOps, meet DevSecOps.

The Homeland Security Department is looking beyond the buzzy "DevOps" management approach—blending the software development and the operations staff to encourage closer collaboration—to "DevSecOps," which throws security teams into that mix. A more conventional approach might keep these groups separate until shortly before the product launch.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is investigating DevSecOps services, as well as agile development, a methodology that breaks large projects into smaller chunks that are tested every few weeks. The department's request for information asks vendors to explain how they apply DevSecOps to fields like big data, analytics and machine learning, including neural networks and artificial intelligence.

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