It obviously doesn't make sense to scan something a hundred times if nobody's going to touch it between those scans. |
The government is now doing what private companies have been doing to make sure the software packages are secure and reliable for widespread deployment. |
This is part of a trend where government is adopting a lot of the technology software companies already have. |
We'll develop the [Prevent] tool so we're able to understand what the government needs in terms of defect detection, software reliability and software security. |
You've got a lot of [government] departments that are using open source. There's millions and millions of lines of code. And unless you get some sort of automated way to keep it under control and understand what the defects are, where the vulnerabilities might be, and a way to cleanse it, it just gets out of control. |