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The SEI helps advance software engineering principles and practices and serves as a national resource in software engineering, computer security, and process improvement. The SEI works closely with defense and government organizations, industry, and academia to continually improve software-intensive systems. Its core purpose is to help organizations improve their software engineering capabilities and develop or acquire the right software, defect free, within budget and on time, every time.

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What is Blockchain? What is Bitcoin?

Why are government and industry organizations from banking to defense investing in blockchain research and development? Eliezer Kanal explores the promises and the risks.

How to Think Like an Analyst

What does it mean to think like an analyst? This blog post by Angela Horneman introduces a framework for security operations center staff and others.

David Garlan Honored with Nancy Mead Award

Recognized for outstanding contributions to software engineering education and training, and for professionalism in the field of software engineering

Download the 2016 SEI Year in Review

Learn about the work undertaken by the Institute on a range of challenges confronting the Department of Defense, civilian government agencies, and industry.

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DNS Blocking: A Viable Strategy in Malware Defense

In this post, CERT researcher Vijay Sarvepalli explores the use of Domain Name System Blocking to disrupt communications from malicious code such as ransomware.

Stempfley Named New Director of CERT Division

The Software Engineering Institute has announced the appointment of Roberta G. (Bobbie) Stempfley as director of the SEI’s CERT Division.

Leading and advancing software and cybersecurity to solve the nation's toughest problems

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Research and Publications

Department of Defense Software Factbook In this report, the Software Engineering Institute has analyzed data related to DoD software projects and translated it into information that is frequently sought-after across the DoD. Technical Report - 07/11/2017

The Hard Choices Game Explained The Hard Choices game is a simulation of the software development cycle meant to communicate the concepts of uncertainty, risk, and technical debt. White Paper - 06/26/2017

IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement Award IEEE Computer Society/Software Engineering Institute Watts S. Humphrey Software Process Achievement Award White Paper - 05/15/2017

Django & Twitter Bootstrap in the Workplace: Build 'em Fast and Furious In this talk, I'll discuss how I used the Django web framework, in conjunction with Twitter Bootstrap, to quickly build complex business applications. Presentation - 05/04/2017

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Training

Creating a Computer Security Incident Response Team September 11, 2017 (SEI Arlington, VA)

Documenting Software Architectures September 11 - 12, 2017 (SEI Pittsburgh, PA)

Managing Computer Security Incident Response Teams September 12 - 14, 2017 (SEI Arlington, VA)

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NEWS

Garlan Honored with Nancy Mead Award
Article - 07/14/2017

Stempfley Named New Director of CMU Software Engineering Institute CERT Division
Press Release - 06/13/2017

FloCon 2018 to Move Beyond Flow Data
Article - 06/02/2017

SATURN 2017 Provides Attendees a “High-Density” Experience
Article - 05/22/2017

Trzeciak discusses new edition of Common Sense Guide to Mitigating Insider Threats
Media Coverage - 02/16/2017

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EVENTS

SEI Software Engineering Workshop for Educators
This event is free of charge and open to any accredited, college-level educator.
Workshop - 08/01/2017

CERT Data Science in Cybersecurity Symposium
In this symposium we will highlight tooling and methodology advances, review a number of government use cases where data science has been used to great effect, and provide a demonstration of the capabilities that these tools can provide.
Workshop - 08/10/2017

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