Second Front Systems Game Warden Now Available on Google Cloud Platform
Second Front Systems (2F), a public-benefit software company, announced its platform Game Warden is now available on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) on Impact Levels 2, 4 and 5.
In a press release shared on November 7, 2F Chief Revenue Officer TJ Rowe said, "This is a critical milestone for our teams and enables us to serve Google's broad customer base. We look forward to continuing to deepen our partnership and empowering the acceleration of technology to the public sector."
Impact Levels are used by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) to classify data and determine its sensitivity. With Game Warden now accredited on GCP, 2F customers can deploy their GCP-hosted software to DoD networks in a seamless manner.
2F was co-founded by Peter Dixon, Mark Butler and Nate Hughes, three U.S. Marine Corps veterans who experienced firsthand an outdated acquisition system on the frontlines of defending the United States.
Last month, 2F listed Game Warden in the Amazon Web Services' U.S. Intelligence Community Marketplace (ICMP), a platform that makes it easy for customers to find, test, buy and deploy software.
“We have always been focused on the space of delivering transformative technology to mission,”Chief Product Officer Michael Neumann said. Neumann joined 2F three years ago after a 15-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency.
According to the 2F website, Game Warden is a platform that allows rapid onboarding, hosting and deployment of critical technology to the United States and its allies to support global security missions.
Neumann said it can be thought of as an “accelerator and a compliance engine that enables companies to rapidly bring their software to the national security space, secure it, produce the necessary compliance documentation and then deploy and run that software, both on unclassified and classified fabric.”
The focus of the company has been to help companies get deployed onto the correct networks they need to run on. “Whether that’s an unclassified network or classified network, we have pathways to both that allow mission to deliver their application where it's most needed," Neumann said.
One of the things that drove the team to create this platform was the inconsistency of the accreditation process and monitoring across various agencies.
“This concept of reciprocity across the intel community for acceptance of accreditation is a major gap,” Neumann said. “Everyone does it a little bit different, right? And what Game Warden gives is a repeatable, well-documented, well-architected, scalable system that allows for consistent output on compliance documentation” as well consistency of runtime environment and security monitoring.
Having Game Warden listed on ICMP allows critical agencies to easily benefit from the platform. Mission owners who have a critical intelligence question or gap operation they’re trying to serve can find Game Warden from ICMP and know they have a secure place to run their software. Mission owners can get software from ICMP and run it through Game Warden “and then have this end-to-end cycle to deploy transformative applications for [their] mission,” Neumann explained.
We have always been focused on the space of delivering transformative technology to mission.
Apart from working with U.S. government agencies, 2F partners with Google Cloud, Carahsoft, Microsoft Azure and others. The company also has a contract with NATO to bring Game Warden into its technology accelerators, and 2F has an “ongoing relationship” with the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence.
“The future state for us is around speed, scale, new networks and international partnership,” Neumann said.
The first customer was onboarded to Game Warden 24 months ago. “We’re still early in the journey," Neumann said. "And the platform and the product continue to evolve.”
The Second Front Systems team works closely with its customers to understand specific features their companies or agencies need.
“We’re continually laying on additional layers of security, whether it’s static application security testing or dynamic application security testing or code scanning or vulnerability management,” Neumann said. “All of that we continue to stack together to really have this very robust security pipeline. We want to be able to do it at scale and with speed.”
This new GCP announcement arrives after 2F’s Series C funding round, where the company raised $70 million to continue delivering emerging technology and software tools for global security missions.
