NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Checkmarx, a global leader in software security solutions for DevOps, today announced that it has been awarded a contract with the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Business & Enterprise Systems (BES) Directorate to accelerate its development and delivery of secure software. The USAF will benefit from the full Checkmarx Software Security Platform, which combines SAST, SCA, IAST, and developer education solutions, to mitigate risk from software vulnerabilities earlier in the development lifecycle and empower its shift to a true DevSecOps model.
Selected by the BES Cyber Security Assurance Division, the Checkmarx deployment supports the twofold mission of the BES Directorate: to build cyber resiliency into the applications it develops and to do so without disrupting developer workflows, leading to faster software delivery. The organization’s enhanced DevSecOps efforts expedite the U.S. Federal Certificate to Field (CTF) and Authority to Operate (ATO) approval process from months to days in alignment with the USAF CIO Division 4 Fast Track ATOs.
The BES Directorate initially engaged Checkmarx in 2018, leveraging Checkmarx SAST (CxSAST) across dozens…
