Making the Business Case for Software Assurance

Sponsored by the Software Engineering Institute's CERT Program and Carnegie Mellon CyLab in support of the Department of Homeland Security Software Assurance Program

Date: September 26, 2008
Location: Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Keynote speaker: Joe Jarzombek, Director for Software Assurance, Department of Homeland Security

This one-day workshop explored methods for making the business case for software assurance and associated issues. We particularly focused on ways of capturing development costs and all forms of benefit associated with software assurance and making the case to executive management. The workshop included invited speakers, presentations of refereed papers, and facilitated discussion sessions.

Proceedings

Download the proceedings (PDF).

Chairs

General Chair
Jan Vargas – Software Engineering Institute

Program Chair
Nancy Mead – Software Engineering Institute

Program Committee

Julia Allen – Software Engineering Institute
John Bailey – Institute for Defense Analysis
Antonio Drommi – University of Detroit Mercy
Jeff Ingalsbe – Ford Motor Company
Jim McCurley – Software Engineering Institute
Mary Polydys – National Defense University
Sivraram Rajagopalan – Ernst & Young
David Root – Carnegie Mellon University
Mel Rosso-Llopart – Carnegie Mellon University
Dan Shoemaker – University of Detroit Mercy
Rahul Telang – Carnegie Mellon University
Chuck Weinstock – Software Engineering Institute
Bob West – Echelon One
Dan Wolf – Cyber Pack Ventures and Software Assurance Consortium
Rita Briston – Administration
Pamela Curtis – Technical Editor

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