This Shit is Hard: Getting commercial software into regulated environments using AI

Michael Neumann is Chief Data Scientist at Second Front Systems, where he leads AI and R&D efforts across the company's Game Warden platform. Before Second Front, he spent 15 years in the intelligence community and served as the first Chief Data Scientist at the CIA. Chainguard’s “This Shit is Hard” series showcases the difficult engineering work that goes into building software people can rely on. This includes work we’ve done ourselves and work by teams solving hard problems adjacent to ours. Today, Second Front explains what it takes to get commercial software accredited and running inside the most regulated environments in the world, and why the compliance problem can’t be solved by adding more people. Turns out, this shit is hard. I spent 15 years in the intelligence community before joining the private sector. I was the chief data scientist at the CIA, helped stand up the data…