Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series

Many organizations use the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) to prioritize actions during vulnerability management. This podcast—which highlights the latest work in prioritizing actions during vulnerability management—presents a testable Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) that avoids some problems with CVSS. SSVC takes the form of decision trees for different vulnera...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 1.0 for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) suppliers defines specific cybersecurity practices across five levels of maturity while also measuring the degree to which those practices are institutionalized within an organization. The CMMC model draws on maturity processes and cybersecurity best practices from multiple standards, including the National...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 1.0 for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) suppliers defines specific cybersecurity practices across five levels of maturity while also measuring the degree to which those practices are institutionalized within an organization. The CMMC model draws on maturity processes and cybersecurity best practices from multiple standards, including the National...

Situational awareness makes it possible to get relevant information from across an organization, to integrate that information, and to disseminate it to help leaders make more informed decisions. In this SEI Podcast, Angela Horneman and Timothy Morrow, researchers in the SEI's CERT Division, discuss the importance of looking beyond the network to acquire situational awareness for cybersecurity.

While actual quantum computers are available from several different companies, we are currently in the Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum (NISQ) era. Working in the NISQ era presents a number of challenges, and the SEI is working to use NISQ devices not only to solve specific mission applications for the Department of Defense, but also to help determine when they will demonstrate so-called quantum a...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 1.0 for Defense Industrial Base (DIB) suppliers defines specific cybersecurity practices across five levels of maturity while also measuring the degree to which those practices are institutionalized within an organization. The CMMC model draws on maturity processes and cybersecurity best practices from multiple standards, including the National...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 1.0 for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) defines specific cybersecurity practices across five levels of maturity while also measuring the degree to which those practices are institutionalized within an organization. The CMMC model draws on maturity processes and cybersecurity best practices from multiple standards, including the National Insti...

The culture of computers and information technology changes quickly. The Future of Cyber Podcast series explores the future of cyber and whether we can use the innovations of the past to address the problems of the future. In our latest episode, Bobbie Stempfley, director of the SEI's CERT Division, interviews Dr. Diana Burley, executive director and chair of the Institute for Information Infrastr...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 1.0 for the Defense Industrial Base (DIB) defines specific cybersecurity practices across five levels of maturity while also measuring the degree to which those practices are institutionalized within an organization. The CMMC model draws on maturity processes and cybersecurity best practices from multiple standards, including the National Insti...

Software development is shifting to incremental delivery to meet the demand for software quicker and at lower costs. With the current cyber threat climate, the demand for cybersecurity is growing but existing compliance processes focus on a completed product and do not support incremental delivery. Cybersecurity must be carefully woven into each increment deliver results with sufficient security a...

The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) 1.0 defines specific cybersecurity practices across five levels of maturity while also measuring the degree to which those practices are institutionalized within an organization. The CMMC model draws on maturity processes and cybersecurity best practices from multiple standards, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST...

For more than 30 years, the cybersecurity community has worked to increase the effectiveness of our cybersecurity and resilience efforts. Today we face an explosion of devices, the pervasiveness of software, the threat of adversarial capability, and the dependence of national capabilities on the cyber domain. These challenges demand that we think about how to achieve the future we need, which is t...

In this SEI podcast, Hasan Yasar and Jose Morales discuss challenges to implementing DevOps in highly regulated environments (HREs), exploring issues such as environment parity, the approval process, and compliance. This podcast is the second to explore DevOps in HREs.

The culture of computers and information technology evolves quickly. In this environment, how can we build a culture of security through regulations and best practices when technology can move so much faster than legislative bodies? The Future of Cyber Podcast Series explores whether we can use the innovations of the past to address the problems of the future. In this SEI Podcast, David Hickton, f...

Artificially intelligent (AI) systems hold great promise to empower us with knowledge and enhance human effectiveness. As a senior research scientist in human-machine interaction at the Software Engineering Institute's Emerging Technology Center, Carol Smith works to further understand how humans and machines can better collaborate to solve important problems and also understand our responsibiliti...

In this podcast, Allen Householder and David Warren discuss the CERT Guide to Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure , which is intended for use by security researchers, software vendors, and other stakeholders in navigating the complexities of informing others about security vulnerabilities.

Computers and information technology are getting more and more integrated into our daily lives, so they need to be easy to use. But recent, historically large data breaches have demonstrated the need to make systems more secure and to protect information about individuals. How will the security−privacy−usability triangle successfully accommodate the challenges that the future will bring? In this p...

For more than 30 years, the cybersecurity community has worked to increase the effectiveness of our cybersecurity and resilience efforts. Today we face an explosion of devices, the pervasiveness of software, the threat of adversarial capability, and the dependence of national capabilities on the cyber domain. These challenges demand that we think about how to achieve the future we need. In this po...

In this podcast, Jeff Gennari and Cory Cohen discuss updates to the Pharos Binary Analysis Framework in GitHub, including a new plug-in to import OOAnalyzer analysis into the NSA's recently released Ghidra software reverse engineering tool suite.

Successful management of incidents that threaten an organization's computer security is a complex endeavor. Frequently an organization's primary focus is on the response aspects of security incidents, which results in its failure to manage incidents beyond simply reacting to threatening events. In this SEI Podcast, Robin Ruefle and Mark Zajicek discuss recent work that provides a baseline or bench...

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.

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 podcast roundtable, Andrew Mellinger, Suzanne Miller, and Hasan Yasar discuss the human factors that impact software engineering, from communication tools they...

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.

Today's major defense systems rely heavily on software-enabled capabilities. However, many defense programs acquiring new systems first determine the physical items to develop, assuming the contractors for those items will provide all needed software for the capability. But software by its nature spans physical items: it provides the inter-system communication that has a direct influence on most c...

The Software Assurance Framework (SAF) is a collection of cybersecurity practices that programs can apply across the acquisition lifecycle and supply chain. The SAF can be used to assess an acquisition program's current cybersecurity practices and chart a course for improvement, ultimately reducing the cybersecurity risk of deployed, software-reliant systems. In this podcast, Dr. Carol Woody discu...