Case Studies
Cloud Migration
SITUATION: CMS-CCIIO sought to migrate the Federally Facilitated Marketplace (FFM) from its current on-premises virtual data center providers into a Cloud-hosted environment.
SOLUTION: SBD migrated all 17 modules into the AWS cloud utilizing Puppet, Nexus Pro, SonarCube, Fortify, and Splunk. Our Team continues to optimize in the cloud to reduce costs, increase monitoring and availability, mature continuous delivery practices, automate security, and implement platform improvements.
BENEFIT: The transition to a Cloud-hosted (AWS) environment allows for economies of scale and on-demand scalability as needed to better meet the system resource demands and business cycles of the Marketplace.
DevSecOps Pipeline
SITUATION: CMS required a DevSecOps solution to keep pace with evoling CMS enterprise standards, and more importantly, that focused on empowering Product Owners with Release On-Demand capabilities.
SOLUTION: SBD provides digital services using a hybrid agile development approach that aligns to the CMS XLC by integrating a fully automated DevSecOps Pipeline and process. SBD utilizes tools such as GitHub, Jenkins, Ansible, JUnit, SonarQube, Fortify, Nexus, OWASP, Selenium, JMeter, Splunk, New Relic, BurpSuite, JBOSS and ChefInspec.
BENEFIT: In the base year of the contract, O&M costs were estimated at 70% of contract costs and 30% New Development. Our team has reduced O&M costs to 40%, enabling new development spend to increase to 60%. We also decreased our patching time through automation by 71% in a span of three months.
Security Orchestration, Automation & Response
SITUATION: Our SOC personnel conduct information assurance activities designed to ensure system and application compliance with RMF guidance. Our team is responsible for maintaining system/application/data security and analyzing both data and reports to determine agency vulnerability to network and desktop-based attacks while recommending actions to prevent, repair or mitigate these vulnerabilities
SOLUTION: Our Security Automation and Orchestration has been successfully implemented at DHS USCIS resulting in more secure security posture as well as efficiencies and cost savings.
BENEFITS: Over $800k in Savings in the first 8 months of implementation. Automated over 80% of Tier 1 functions. We are reporting over 64% of incidents across all of DHS. Customize Cyber Threat Intelligence exposes indicators before an agency is targeted. Enhanced resource allocation and efficiency.
Financial Management
SITUATION: In the Purchase Card Program (PCard), CBP was going through a banking system transition from JP Morgan to Citibank that impacted all operations of the PCard program – essentially all the purchasing ability via credit card, checks, and purchasing approvals.
SOLUTION: To help minimize risk of errors that could cause prolonged financial, increased resource burdens, and fraud and security risks, Corinth retained the legacy management knowledge of the Purchase Card Program operational areas of: staffing needs and skills sets, security procedures, and ability to continue to provide corporate support the incumbent staff need during and after onboarding.
BENEFIT: Corinth ensured zero legacy knowledge loss and as our client quote noted, we were able to provide “outstanding performance” during the transition. To this day Corinth continues to receive Excellent CPARS.