ROME — Assured Information Security (AIS) says its cross domain virtualization solutions (CDVS) group has been appraised at level 3 in the “maturity” of its software-development process. AIS is a cyber- and information-security firm founded and headquartered in Rome. It also operates offices in Syracuse and Rochester, and a few locations outside New York state […]
ROME — Assured Information Security (AIS) says its cross domain virtualization solutions (CDVS) group has been appraised at level 3 in the “maturity” of its software-development process.
AIS is a cyber- and information-security firm founded and headquartered in Rome. It also operates offices in Syracuse and Rochester, and a few locations outside New York state as well, per its website.
The appraisal was made by the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) Institute, AIS announced on Nov. 8. CMMI is a program based at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
“CMMI is often a requirement for government contractors, and the [bigger] you get … it’s one of the ways that you can prove that you have a mature software-development process,” says Adam Hovak, operations manager for the CDVS group at AIS. “So, we’ll be eligible to go after larger contracts … that we weren’t eligible for in the past.” He spoke with CNYBJ on Nov. 25.
CMMI is a “process-improvement approach that provides organizations with the essential elements of effective processes that ultimately improve their performance,” AIS explains.
The CMMI Institute “enables organizations to elevate and benchmark performance across a range of critical business capabilities,” including cybersecurity, product development, service excellence, workforce management, data management, supplier management, per its website.
“[The level 3 appraisal] means that we are investing in the future of our software-development maturity,” says Hovak. “It just shows the company’s commitment to quality.”
AIS was rated at level 2 in 2018 so advancing to a level 3 rating was a “natural next step for us,” per Hovak.
AIS provides government and commercial customers with cybersecurity capabilities and services such as research, development, consulting, testing, forensics, remediation and training.
The AIS CDVS group has about 55 employees total — working in Rome and offices in Maryland, Boston, and Denver, according to Hovak.
“We develop cross-domain solutions as well as develop commercial products as well as perform research and development for the government,” says Hovak. “Cross domain is protecting the information transfer, or information sharing, between domains.”
The CDVS group worked with Waterford, Michigan–based Broadsword Solutions in pursuing the new appraisal level. Broadsword Solutions specializes in “performance innovation and process improvement,” AIS says.
Broadsword provided agileCMMI workshops, coaching, and consulting services to help AIS reach its capability goals. As AIS describes it, agileCMMI uses methods such as incremental delivery and continuous build and collaboration, applying the same techniques used when writing software to “deploy process and help engineers embrace process.”
