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[Dewi Daniels]

DevSecOps is promoted with religious fervour by some in the US military
software community. For example, read the following post from the former
Chief Software Engineer of the USAF: (3) LinkedIn
<https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/time-say-goodbye-nicolas-m-chaillan/>. He
mentions DevSecOps 25 times . I'm reminded of the saying, "If the only tool
you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a
nail".

Yours,

Dewi Daniels | Director | Software Safety Limited

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On Wed, 26 Jul 2023 at 07:54, Dr. Brendan Patrick Mahony <
mahonybp at tpg.com.au> wrote:

>
> On 23 Jul 2023, at 8:31 pm, Prof. Dr. Peter Bernard Ladkin <
> ladkin at techfak.de> wrote:
>
> Am I right that this is a regime that concerns cybersecurity? And that it
> is a US Government process? And that it concerns largely IT systems?
>
>
> All good questions I was hoping someone wiser might have answers to.
>
> cATO arrises in relation to something called SecDevOps and is promoted by
> elements of the military cyber community, so certainly safety is not front
> and centre. That may be a problem rather than a feature.
>
> It would be nice to think that cATO only applies to “IT” systems, if by IT
> you mean typewriter and calculator replacement software.
>
> My concerns are that it seems to be being promoted as an approach to
> in-servicing “intelligent” systems, meaning they intend to use cATO to
> authorise the fielding of whole swathes of “operator” replacement software.
> Hence my question to the list.
>
> Does anyone across cATO care to comment?
>
> Brendan
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