Silent Sentinel Assets

Before deploying software in an enterprise IT environment, system owners must consider the pros and cons of installing, operating, and maintaining that software. They must determine whether the software is secure, compatible, stable, performant, and reliable enough to meet their business needs. Performing a comprehensive analysis of software can be difficult and time consuming.

We at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) designed Silent Sentinel to streamline and automate this analysis to help teams evaluate the behavior of software before it is deployed and to understand the impact the software will have in their IT environment.

By automating the analysis process and producing consistent output for analysis, Silent Sentinel helps teams answer questions like the following:

• Is this software known to be malware?
• How much memory and disk space should we provision for this application? How many CPU cores?
• What files should we expect the software to add, modify, or delete?
• How many processes does the software create when it runs? What are they?
• What is the baseline for network communication?