Software Engineering Institute

The Best and the Brightest: 6 Years of Supporting the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition

May 13, 2025 • Podcast

By Jarrett Booz, Matthew J. Butkovic, John DiRicco

The SEI team that supported the Presidents Cup Cybersecurity Competition details their challenges, successes, and lessons learned.

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Updating Risk Assessment in the CERT Secure Coding Standard

April 23, 2025 • Podcast

By Robert Schiela, Joe Sible, David Svoboda

This podcast explores proposed risk assessment updates to the CERT Secure Coding Standard.

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Delivering Next Generation Cyber Capabilities to the Warfighter

April 15, 2025 • Podcast

By Greg Touhill

Gregory Touhill discusses work by CERT researchers and technologists to deliver rapid capabilities to warfighters in the DoD.

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Getting the Most Out of Your Insider Risk Data with IIDES

March 26, 2025 • Podcast

By Austin Whisnant, Daniel L. Costa

Insider incidents cause around 35 percent of data breaches. In this podcast, Austin Whisnant and Dan Costa discuss the Insider Incident Data Expression Standard (IIDES), a new schema for collecting …

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Grace Lewis Outlines Vision for IEEE Computer Society Presidency

March 13, 2025 • Podcast

By Grace Lewis

Grace Lewis, an SEI principal researcher and lead of the SEI’s Tactical and AI-Enabled Systems Initiative, was elected the 2026 president of the IEEE Computer Society.

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Improving Machine Learning Test and Evaluation with MLTE

March 4, 2025 • Podcast

By Katherine R. Maffey (AI Integration Center, U.S. Army), Alex Derr, Sebastián Echeverría, Grace Lewis

Machine learning (ML) models commonly experience issues when integrated into production systems. MLTE provides a process and infrastructure for ML test and evaluation.

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DOD Software Modernization: SEI Impact and Innovation

February 26, 2025 • Podcast

By Paul Nielsen

As software size, complexity, and interconnectedness continues to grow, modernization has become more important than ever. Paul Nielsen outlines the SEI’s work with the DoD on this front in the …

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Securing Docker Containers: Techniques, Challenges, and Tools

December 17, 2024 • Podcast

By Sasank Vishnubhatla, Maxwell Trdina

With the increasing prevalence of cloud computing environments, containers are increasingly providing their underlying architecture.

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An Introduction to Software Cost Estimation

December 6, 2024 • Podcast

By Anandi Hira

Software cost estimation is an important first step when beginning a project. It addresses budget, staffing, scheduling, and whether the current environment will support the project.

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Cybersecurity Metrics: Protecting Data and Understanding Threats

October 16, 2024 • Podcast

By Bill Nichols

Scoping down objectives and determining what kinds of data to gather are persistent challenges in cybersecurity. Bill Nichols explores cyber metrics in our latest podcast.

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