Second Front

Custom builds over $10M now need a written justification. Continuous ATO replaced three-year software reviews. The FAR is on its second wave of rewrites. FY26 moved FAST. 20 policy shifts, almost all in favor of commercial software. For every policy change, we created a get-well kit, so you can stay competitive in FY27. https://lnkd.in/dGGMJiWT #policy #cATO #defenseacquisition

FedRAMP in under 60 days. DOW IL5 for AI-optimized logistics. GovRAMP High on top of FedRAMP High. 🇺🇸 Our September dispatch is live, with American Intelligence Corporation, Tagup, and Cohere moving across the ecosystem. It also covers what #FedRAMP certification really costs, the M&A roadmap freeze, and the age-old question: accreditation or contract first? Check it out.

#AUSA2026 back for round ✌️ at Tallboy (IYKYK) We'll be there with our homies at Icarus. Oct 13. 7-10pm. Open bar. No agenda. No filter. For the builders, operators, and ISVs powering the mission. Come through: https://luma.com/ausa-2026

New episode out now. Sit back, relax, and enjoy. 🎙️ 📡 #AQ2F #secondfront SkyFi

Software delivery failure risks a multi-domain domino effect - impacting far beyond the scope of the software itself. We traced that journey in our latest blog, and how to prevent downstream effects with a continuous ATO. https://lnkd.in/dKQJ-2cq

Oldie but goodie 💡 Bonnie Evangelista, former Acting Deputy Chief Digital and AI Officer for Acquisitions at DoW CDAO, has heard many pitches from the government side of the table. These are the questions government Marketplaces want answered in a five-minute video: 1️⃣ Do you have a solution to a department problem? 2️⃣ Why does your tech win? 3️⃣ What's the impact if you solve my problem? Check it out: https://lnkd.in/ddQCZr7i New episodes of All Quiet on the Second Front Podcast drop every other week! Next Tuesday: Luke Fischer, Co-Founder & CEO of SkyFi. Stay tuned. 🚀

Practitioners assume vendors are optimizing for the close. Many are optimizing for a problem they personally lived with for a decade.   For our August 2026 AMA on r/cybersecurity, a group of CISOs, CTOs, and in-house defenders who moved to the vendor side compared notes on compensation, what makes a sales conversation land, how buying decisions really get made, and whether AI is convincing companies they don't need vendors at all. One takeaway worth stealing: stop trying to get the CISO meeting and go talk to the person who feels the pain.   Read the full article here: https://lnkd.in/gg6Z59tP Big thanks to our participants: Adam Arellano, field CTO at Harness Matt Conner, CISO at Second Front Systems Mitchem B., field CTO at Intezer Patricia Titus, field CISO at Abnormal AI Joye Purser CISSP PhD, field CISO at Cohesity   Our next AMA starts Sunday, September 27 on r/cybersecurity. Follow the subreddit or visit CISOseries.com to join and ask questions.   #CISOSeries #Cybersecurity #InfoSec #CISO #VendorRelations #SecurityLeadership

2F is heading to CSP-AB Summit next week. 🇺🇸 Two days in Arlington, VA, with federal policy leaders, industry, and security experts, all focused on accelerating secure cloud adoption across the federal enterprise. Free to attend. 2F Field CISO, Matt Conner, joins an industry panel on modernizing DOW cloud compliance. Evolving security requirements. Authorization and connectivity processes like BCAP. Where more collaboration and consistency get secure capability to the mission faster. See you there! https://lnkd.in/d_FDhwZb Cloud Service Providers Advisory Board (CSP-AB) #CSPABSummit #CloudSecurity #FedRAMP #GameWarden

Hours to minutes. That's how fast Game Warden's AI agents now resolve vulnerabilities across hundreds of apps in some of the world's most regulated environments. Michael Neumann, 2F Chief Data Scientist, spent 15 years in the IC and was the CIA's first Chief Data Scientist. He joined Chainguard's This Shit is Hard series to lay out the whole fight: the three-body problem of federal compliance, agent blast radius, and the hardest part of all, getting reciprocity to stick. This shit is hard. We do it anyway. 🇺🇸 https://lnkd.in/d5CJ33yD

Government agencies are modernizing how they manage credential access. Bitwarden is pursuing FedRAMP High (Class D) certification for Password Manager and Secrets Manager to support a dedicated government cloud offering. Learn more: https://btwrdn.com/4yCXUtB #cybersecurity #passwordmanager #secretsmanager #security