Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series

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Benchmarking Organizational...

12.17.2019

In this SEI Podcast, Robin Ruefle and Mark Zajicek discuss recent work that provides a baseline or benchmark of incident management practices for an organization and detail how important it is to focus on preparation for incident management along with ...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series episodes:

12.17.2019 Benchmarking Organizational Incident Management Practices In this SEI Podcast, Robin Ruefle and Mark Zajicek discuss recent work that provides a baseline or benchmark of incident management practices for an organization and detail how important it is to focus on preparation for incident management along with ...
12.11.2019 Machine Learning in Cybersecurity: 7 Questions for Decision Makers April Galyardt, Angela Horneman, and Jonathan Spring discuss seven key questions that managers and decision makers should ask about machine learning to effectively solve cybersecurity problems.
11.26.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Kristi Roth In this SEI Podcast, Kristi Roth, a summer 2019 intern in the Software Solutions Division at the Software Engineering Institute, discusses the path that led from a childhood spent calculating math problems in her head to a high school Introduction ...
11.12.2019 Human Factors in Software Engineering Solving the technical aspects isn’t enough to build reliable, enduring, resilient software and systems. Human decision making, behavioral factors, and cultural factors influence software engineering, acquisition, and cybersecurity. In this SEI Podcast roundtable, Andrew Mellinger, Suzanne Miller, and Hasan Yasar ...
10.15.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Anita Carleton In this SEI Podcast, Anita Carleton discusses the career path that led to her current role as acting director of the SEI’s Software Solutions Division and the challenges and mentors (Watts Humphrey) that she encountered along the way.
10.04.2019 Improving the Common Vulnerability Scoring System In this podcast, the authors discuss a 2019 paper that outlines challenges with the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and proposes changes to improve it.
10.01.2019 Why Software Architects Must Be Involved in the Earliest Systems Engineering Activities Software by its nature spans physical items: it provides the inter-system communication that has a direct influence on most capabilities, and thus must be architected intelligently, especially when pieces are built by different contractors. As Dr. Sarah Sheard discusses in ...
09.24.2019 Selecting Metrics for Software Assurance In this podcast, Dr. Carol Woody discusses the selection of metrics for measuring the software assurance of a product as it is developed and delivered to function in a specific system context.
09.18.2019 AI in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response In 2017 and 2018, the world witnessed a record number of climate and weather-related disasters. Government agencies are increasingly interested in the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to help first responders in locating survivors, identifying structures in satellite imagery, and ...
08.30.2019 The AADL Error Library: 4 Families of Systems Errors In this SEI Podcast, researchers Peter Feiler and Sam Procter present the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL) EMV2 Error Library, which is an established taxonomy that draws on a broad range of previous work in classifying system errors.
08.22.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Suzanne Miller As a principle researcher at the SEI, Suzanne Miller works to help the Department of Defense develop and field software to the warfighter. In this SEI Podcast, the latest in a series highlighting the work of women in software and ...
07.29.2019 Privacy in the Blockchain Era In this SEI Podcast, Dr. Giulia Fanti, an assistant professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, discusses her latest research including privacy problems in the cryptocurrency and blockchain space and generative adversarial networks.
07.25.2019 Cyber Intelligence: Best Practices and Biggest Challenges Cyber Intelligence is a rapidly changing field, and many organizations do not have the people, time, and funding in place to build a cyber intelligence team, according to a report released in late May by the SEI’s Emerging Technology Center. ...
07.12.2019 Assessing Cybersecurity Training If we can record informative traces of activity in simulation environments and draw accurate inferences about trainee capabilities, then we can provide evidence-based guidance on performance, assess mission readiness, optimize training schedules, and refine training modules. April Galyardt, a machine ...
06.27.2019 DevOps in Highly Regulated Environments Highly regulated environments (HREs), such as finance and healthcare, are mandated by policies for various reasons, most often general security and protection of intellectual property. These policies make the sharing and open access principles of DevOps that much harder to ...
06.20.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Dr. Ipek Ozkaya After earning a degree in architecture, Dr. Ipek Ozkaya studied computational design at Carnegie Mellon University. Now at the Software Engineering Institute, Ozkaya researches better ways for designing software and helping organizations manage technical debt in large-scale, complex software-intensive systems. ...
06.11.2019 The Role of the Software Factory in Acquisition and Sustainment Dr. Paul Nielsen discusses his involvement on a Defense Science Board Task Force that concluded that the software factory should be a key player in the acquisition and sustainment of software for defense.
05.30.2019 Defending Your Organization Against Business Email Compromise Operation Wire Wire, a coordinated law enforcement effort by the U.S. Department of Justice, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service, resulted in 74 arrests in the United States and overseas, ...
05.21.2019 My Story in Computing with Dr. Eliezer Kanal Those who work in computing today bring a wide array of backgrounds and experiences to the profession. In this podcast, the first in a series, Dr. Eliezer Kanal—a former premed student, computational neuroscientist, health-care technical manager, financial quantitative analyst, freelance ...
04.19.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Eileen Wrubel In this SEI Podcast, which highlights the work of Women in Software and Cybersecurity, Eileen Wrubel, co-lead of the SEI’s Agile/DevOps Transformation directorate, discusses her career journey.
03.21.2019 Managing Technical Debt: A Focus on Automation, Design, and Architecture In this SEI Podcast, Rod Nord and Ipek Ozkaya discuss the SEI's current work in technical debt including the development of analysis techniques to help software engineers and decision makers manage the effect of technical debt on their software projects.
03.14.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Grace Lewis Grace Lewis’s research helps soldiers in the field access cloud resources even if they are not fully connected to the cloud. It also enables IoT devices to securely integrate with edge resources to pre-process data on its way to the ...
03.01.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Bobbie Stempfley In this SEI Podcast interview, Roberta (Bobbie) Stempfley discusses her career and journey to becoming the director of the SEI’s CERT Division. This podcast is one of the inaugural interviews in our Women in Software and Cybersecurity podcast series.
03.01.2019 Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Dr. Lorrie Cranor In this SEI Podcast, Dr. Lorrie Cranor, director of CyLab, discusses her career, her work in privacy and security, and her upcoming keynote at the 2019 Women in Cybersecurity Conference, March 28-30 in Pittsburgh. This podcast is one of the ...
03.01.2019 Leading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Tom Longstaff, who in 2018 was hired as the SEI’s chief technology officer, discusses the challenges of leading a technical organization in the age of artificial intelligence.
02.27.2019 Applying Best Practices in Network Traffic Analysis In today's operational climate, threats and attacks against network infrastructures have become far too common. In this SEI Podcast, Tim Shimeall and Timur Snoke, both researchers in the SEI’s CERT Division, highlight some best practices (and application of these practices) ...
02.25.2019 10 Types of Application Security Testing Tools and How to Use Them Thomas Scanlon, a researcher in the SEI’s CERT Division, discusses the different types of application security testing tools and provides guidance on how and when to use each tool.
02.18.2019 Using Test Suites for Static Analysis Alert Classifiers Static analysis tools used to identify potential vulnerabilities in source code produce a large number of alerts with high false-positive rates that must painstakingly examined to find legitimate flaws. Researchers in the SEI’s CERT Division developed the SCALe (Source Code ...
02.18.2019 Blockchain at CMU and Beyond Beyond its financial hype, researchers are exploring and understanding the promise of Blockchain technologies. In this SEI Podcast, Eliezer Kanal and Eugene Leventhal discuss blockchain research at Carnegie Mellon University and beyond.
02.15.2019 Leading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Tom Longstaff, who in 2018 was hired as the SEI’s chief technology officer, discusses his career including a previous stint at the SEI and the challenges of leading a technical organization in the age of artificial intelligence.
11.28.2018 Deep Learning in Depth: The Future of Deep Learning Ritwik Gupta and Carson Sestili discuss the future of deep learning. “Here is amazing research being done all over the world on how we make what is called explainable AI. How do we explain what the deep learning is trying ...
11.27.2018 Deep Learning in Depth: Adversarial Machine Learning Ritwik Gupta of the SEI’s Emerging Technology Center and Carson Sestili, formerly of the SEI’s CERT Division and now with Google, discuss adversarial machine learning.
11.15.2018 System Architecture Virtual Integration: ROI on Early Discovery of Defects Peter Feiler discusses the cost savings (26.1 percent) realized when using the System Architecture Virtual Integration approach on the development of software-reliant systems for aircraft. “If you discover [software defects] at system integration test, the cost of fixing a problem ...
11.07.2018 Deep Learning in Depth: The Importance of Diverse Perspectives Ritwik Gupta of the SEI’s Emerging Technology Center and Carson Sestili, formerly of the SEI’s CERT Division and now with Google, discuss the importance of diverse perspectives in deep learning.
11.04.2018 A Technical Strategy for Cybersecurity Roberta “Bobbie” Stempfley, who was appointed director of the SEI’s CERT Division in June 2017, discusses a technical strategy for cybersecurity. “There is never enough time, money, power, resources—whatever it is—and we make design tradeoffs. Adversaries are looking at what ...
10.26.2018 Best Practices for Security in Cloud Computing Don Faatz and Tim Morrow, researchers with the SEI’s CERT Division, outline best practices that organizations should use to address the vulnerabilities and risks in moving applications and data to cloud services.
10.22.2018 Risks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities in Moving to the Cloud Tim Morrow and Donald Faatz outline the risks, threats, and vulnerabilities that organizations face when moving applications or data to the cloud. “If you look at large organizations like the DoD, they have embraced this. They are looking to buy ...
10.12.2018 Deep Learning in Depth: IARPA's Functional Map of the World Challenge Ritwik Gupta and Carson Sestili describe their use of deep learning in IARPA’s Functional Map of the World Challenge. “The idea is how can you take these very minute differences, not only in scale, but also in landscape, the buildings ...
10.05.2018 Deep Learning in Depth: Deep Learning versus Machine Learning In this podcast excerpt, Ritwik Gupta and Carson Sestili describe deep learning and how it differs from machine learning. “As you compose more and more non-linear functions together, you can represent a much wider function space than you could with ...
09.14.2018 How to Be a Network Traffic Analyst Tim Shimeall and Timur Snoke, researchers in the SEI’s CERT Division, examine the role of the network traffic analyst in capturing and evaluating ever-increasing volumes of network data. “Part of it is the ability to use a wide variety of ...
08.28.2018 Workplace Violence and Insider Threat Tracy Cassidy and Carrie Gardner, researchers with the CERT National Insider Threat Center, discuss research on using technology to detect an employee’s intent to cause physical harm. “A chronology naturally fell out that gave a temporal description of how a ...
08.02.2018 Why Does Software Cost So Much? Mike Konrad and Bob Stoddard discuss an approach known as causal learning that can help the Department of Defense identify which factors cause software costs to escalate and, therefore, serve as a better basis for guidance on how to intervene.
07.26.2018 Cybersecurity Engineering & Software Assurance: Opportunities & Risks Carol Woody discusses opportunities and risks in cybersecurity engineering, software assurance, and the resulting CERT Cybersecurity Engineering and Software Assurance Professional Certificate.
07.10.2018 Software Sustainment and Product Lines Mike Phillips and Harry Levinson examine the intersection of three themes that emerged during the SEI’s work with one government program: product line practices, software sustainment, and public-private partnerships.
06.25.2018 Best Practices in Cyber Intelligence Jared Ettinger describes preliminary findings and best practices in cyber intelligence identified through a study sponsored by the U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
06.07.2018 Deep Learning in Depth: The Good, the Bad, and the Future Ritwik Gupta and Carson Sestili describe deep learning, a popular and quickly growing subfield of machine learning.
06.07.2018 SEI Podcast Series: Deep Learning in Depth: The Good, The Bad, and the Future Ritwik Gupta and Carson Sestili describe deep learning, a popular and quickly-growing subfield of machine learning.
05.24.2018 The Evolving Role of the Chief Risk Officer Summer Fowler and Ari Lightman discuss the evolving role of the chief risk officer and a Chief Risk Officer Program that is developed and delivered jointly by CMU’s Heinz College of Information Systems and the SEI’s CERT Division.
05.10.2018 Obsidian: A Safer Blockchain Programming Language Eliezer Kanal and Michael Coblenz discuss the creation of Obsidian, a novel programming language specifically tailored to secure blockchain software development that significantly reduces the risk of coding errors.
04.19.2018 Agile DevOps Eileen Wrubel and Hasan Yasar discuss how Agile and DevOps can be deployed together to meet organizational needs.

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Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series episodes:

Benchmarking Organizational Incident Management Practices

Machine Learning in Cybersecurity: 7 Questions for Decision Makers

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Kristi Roth

Human Factors in Software Engineering

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Anita Carleton

Improving the Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Why Software Architects Must Be Involved in the Earliest Systems Engineering Activities

Selecting Metrics for Software Assurance

AI in Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Response

The AADL Error Library: 4 Families of Systems Errors

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Suzanne Miller

Privacy in the Blockchain Era

Cyber Intelligence: Best Practices and Biggest Challenges

Assessing Cybersecurity Training

DevOps in Highly Regulated Environments

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Dr. Ipek Ozkaya

The Role of the Software Factory in Acquisition and Sustainment

Defending Your Organization Against Business Email Compromise

My Story in Computing with Dr. Eliezer Kanal

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Eileen Wrubel

Managing Technical Debt: A Focus on Automation, Design, and Architecture

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Grace Lewis

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Bobbie Stempfley

Women in Software and Cybersecurity: Dr. Lorrie Cranor

Leading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Applying Best Practices in Network Traffic Analysis

10 Types of Application Security Testing Tools and How to Use Them

Using Test Suites for Static Analysis Alert Classifiers

Blockchain at CMU and Beyond

Leading in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Deep Learning in Depth: The Future of Deep Learning

Deep Learning in Depth: Adversarial Machine Learning

System Architecture Virtual Integration: ROI on Early Discovery of Defects

Deep Learning in Depth: The Importance of Diverse Perspectives

A Technical Strategy for Cybersecurity

Best Practices for Security in Cloud Computing

Risks, Threats, and Vulnerabilities in Moving to the Cloud

Deep Learning in Depth: IARPA's Functional Map of the World Challenge

Deep Learning in Depth: Deep Learning versus Machine Learning

How to Be a Network Traffic Analyst

Workplace Violence and Insider Threat

Why Does Software Cost So Much?

Cybersecurity Engineering & Software Assurance: Opportunities & Risks

Software Sustainment and Product Lines

Best Practices in Cyber Intelligence

Deep Learning in Depth: The Good, the Bad, and the Future

SEI Podcast Series: Deep Learning in Depth: The Good, The Bad, and the Future

The Evolving Role of the Chief Risk Officer

Obsidian: A Safer Blockchain Programming Language

Agile DevOps

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