Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series

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Can DevSecOps Make Developers Happier? Jun 24, 2021

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Author Daniel H. Pink recently examined the factors that lead to job satisfaction among knowledge workers and summarized them in three components: autonomy, skill mastery, and purpose. In this SEI Podcast, Hasan Yasar, technical director of Continuous Deployment of Capability at Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute, relates these components to DevSecOps and summarizes a recent survey affirming that DevSecOps practices do indeed make developers and other stakeholders in their organizations happier.

Is Your Organization Ready for AI? Jun 22, 2021

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In this SEI Podcast, digital transformation lead Dr. Rachel Dzombak and research scientist Carol Smith, both with the SEI's Emerging Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, discuss how AI Engineering can support organizations to implement AI systems. The conversation covers the steps that organizations need to take (as well as the hard conversations that need to occur) before they are AI ready.

Managing Vulnerabilities in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Systems Jun 04, 2021

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The robustness and security of artificial intelligence, and specifically machine learning (ML), is of vital importance. Yet, ML systems are vulnerable to adversarial attacks. These can range from an attacker attempting to make the ML system learn the wrong thing (data poisoning), do the wrong thing (evasion attacks), or reveal the wrong thing (model inversion). Although there are several efforts to provide detailed taxonomies of the kinds of attacks that can be launched against a machine learning system, none are organized around operational concerns. In this podcast, Jonathan Spring, Nathan VanHoudnos, and Allen Householder, all researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, discuss the management of vulnerabilities in ML systems as well as the Adversarial ML Threat Matrix, which aims to close this gap between academic taxonomies and operational concerns.

AI Workforce Development May 20, 2021

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In this SEI Podcast, Rachel Dzombak and Jay Palat discuss growth in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) and how organizations can hire and train staff to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by AI and machine learning—and the critical need for an AI engineering discipline to grow the AI workforce.

Moving from DevOps to DevSecOps May 13, 2021

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DevSecOps is a set of principles and practices that provide faster delivery of secure software capabilities by improving the collaboration and communication between software development teams, IT operations, and security staff within an organization, as well as with acquirers, suppliers, and other stakeholders in the life of a software system. In this SEI podcast, Hasan Yasar, technical director of the Continuous Deployment of Capability group in the Software Solutions Division of the SEI, discusses the transition from DevOps to DevSecOps.

Mission-Based Prioritization: A New Method for Prioritizing Agile Backlogs Apr 23, 2021

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In this SEI Podcast, Keith Korzec discusses the Mission-Based Prioritization method for prioritizing Agile backlogs. This method overcomes the shortcomings of prioritization based on "weighted shortest job first" and utilizes objective, mission-focused criteria while allowing ongoing re-prioritization to be conducted with minimal overhead.

Digital Engineering and DevSecOps Mar 16, 2021

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Digital engineering is an integrated digital approach that uses authoritative sources of systems data and models as a continuum across disciplines to support lifecycle activities from concept through disposal. With digital engineering, models are developed for everything, not just for software, but for all components of a system of systems, hardware and software. The models and associated data are stored in a singular repository of knowledge and are the single source that is used by all contractors and everyone working on the project. In this SEI Podcast, David Shepard, a researcher with the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, discusses digital engineering and its relationship with DevSecOps.

A 10-Step Framework for Managing Risk Mar 09, 2021

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Brett Tucker, a technical manager for cyber risk in the SEI CERT Division, discusses the Operationally Critical Threat, Asset, and Vulnerability Evaluation for the Enterprise (OCTAVE FORTE) Model, which helps organizations evaluate security risks and use principles of enterprise risk management to bridge the gap between executives and practitioners. In this SEI Podcast, Tucker outlines OCTAVE FORTE's 10-step framework to guide organizations in managing risk.

7 Steps to Engineer Security into Ongoing and Future Container Adoption Efforts Feb 23, 2021

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If organizations take more steps to address security-related activities now, they will be less likely to encounter security incidents in the future. When it comes to application containers, security is achieved through adopting a series of best practices and guidelines. In this SEI Podcast, Tom Scanlon and Richard Laughlin, researchers with the SEI's CERT Division, discuss seven steps that developers can take to engineer security into ongoing and future container adoption efforts.

Ransomware: Evolution, Rise, and Response Feb 16, 2021

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In this SEI Podcast, Marisa Midler and Tim Shimeall, network defense analysts within the SEI's CERT Division, discuss the growing problem of ransomware including the rise of ransomware as a service threats. Ransom payments from Quarter 3 of 2019 were on average $42,000, and in Quarter 1 of 2020, that average increased $70,000 to $112,000. The volume of attacks also increased by 25 percent in Quarter 4 of 2019 and by another 25 percent in Quarter 1 of 2020. The sophistication of the attacks has increased alongside their severity. Midler and Shimeall discuss steps and strategies that organizations can adopt to minimize their exposure to the risks and threats associated with ransomware.

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