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Kryterion Opens New Certification Exam Centers in Asia

October 5, 2009

The SEI’s testing services provider Kryterion has expanded its testing centers network to include more locations in Asia. Certification candidates can now take qualification exams at testing centers located in Bangkok, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Manila, Kula Lumpur, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore, and Taipei. Download a PDF file of the SEI Certification testing locations.

2009 CERT® Technical Symposium: Security Challenges in an Evolving World, a Celebration of the 20th Anniversary of CERT

Participate in the dialog to identify future challenges and promising solutions in providing a safe and secure networked computing capability for the nation and the world.

Join us for the 2009 CERT Technical Symposium: Security Challenges in an Evolving World, March 10-11, 2009, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.

Marking the occasion of  CERT's Twentieth Anniversary, this two-day symposium will bring together leaders  in cyber security to examine the future challenges we face in securing information and processes as vulnerabilities change, new computing models emerge, and threats evolve.

Join key leaders in government, industry, and academia who are currently influencing information and software assurance policy, operations, and research for this ongoing conversation about how we prepare for the future.

  • Engage with and learn from renowned leaders in the field including Vint Cerf, Scott Charney, John Gilligan, and Jonathan Zittrain.
  • Understand how emerging computing models might impact security and influence cyber security research agendas.
  • Discover what Internet pioneers would do differently today and find out what the experts perceive as the most pressing and emerging security concerns.
  • Learn through collaborative panel discussions by preeminent names in the industry, including Randy Bryant, Steve Crocker, Larry Druffel, David Farber, Virgil Gligor, Paul Kurtz, Paul Mockapetris, Guru Parulkar, Rich Pethia, Larry Roberts, and Bill Scherlis.

More information, including a full list of speakers and panels, registration details, and venue information, is available at the Symposium website: http://www.cert.org/technicalsymposium/

Attendance is limited and we expect to reach our capacity soon. We encourage you to register soon.

Evaluation Dates for Software Architecture: Principles and Practices Instructor Candidates

August 29, 2008

The SEI's Instructor Evaluation Team will evaluate candidates for the Software Architecture Principles and Practices (SAPP) Instructor certification on the following dates:

October 15, 2008
January 14, 2009
April 14, 2009
July 15, 2009
October 15, 2009

To schedule an evaluation, contact Stacie Blakley at scollins@sei.cmu.edu.

Candidate SAPP Instructors must present selected training modules under the observation of an SEI SAPP Instructor Evaluation Team as part of the certification process.

More information about becoming an SEI-Certified SAPP Instructor

More information about the SAPP Partner opportunity

French Translation of CMMI v1.2 Now Available

August 28, 2008

The French language translation of CMMI v1.2 is now available. Sponsored by Pearson Education France, the translation was performed by Marie-Cécile Bland, Emmanuelle Burr and Florian Ascouët and verified by an independent quality assurance team led by Antoine Nardeze of Alcyonix France - Groupe SQLI.

Coming Soon: CEU Certificates in Partner Resource Center

March 31, 2008

As we continue to make improvements to various Partner Network procedures, we will soon introduce a new process for Continuing Education Unit (CEU) certificate generation that is controlled by Partners.
 
The SEI currently generates CEU certificates and sends them to Partners for distribution to students. Beginning in April, Partners will be able to print course completion certificates that include CEUs for their students using a template available in the Partner Resource Center. Each course will have its own certificate template, and each template will indicate the number of CEUs the student has earned. As part of this change, the SEI no longer requires students to provide their date of birth in order to receive their CEUs. Another related improvement is the updated attendee list template, currently available on the Partner Resource Center.

Partners who have already submitted information to the SEI about courses they have delivered do not need to resubmit the information; the SEI will process these submissions as it has in the past.  

If you have any questions, please contact us at partner-info@sei.cmu.edu.

Partner Network Help Desk Available in April

March 26, 2008

The SEI Partner Network is pleased to announce that we will begin operating a help desk on April 1. This centralized approach for responding to your inquiries and requests will ensure that you receive accurate answers in a timely manner. To contact the SEI Partner Network Help Desk, call 1-866-757-4702 (with international access) or email partner-info@sei.cmu.edu.

Traditional Chinese Language Translation of the CMMI for Development  Version 1.2 Now Available

January 14, 2008

The Traditional Chinese language translation of the CMMI for Development version 1.2 model is now available. This translation of v1.2 was sponsored by the Institute for Information Industry (III), a non-profit organization primarily funded by the Ministry of Economic Affairs in Taiwan. The translation was performed by the Information Engineering Institute (IEI) of the III and verified by an independent quality assurance team led by Chaw-Kwei Hung. A translation of CMMI models is now available. Other components of the CMMI Product Suite will be available at a later date. (You will need Chinese fonts that support Big5 encoding to view these pages, but not the models.)

For more information