News Archive: 2024 | CMU Software Engineering Institute

Portend Toolset Creates Guardrails for Machine Learning Data Drift

December 18, 2024 • Article

The SEI’s new, open source toolset provides an end-to-end machine-learning assurance solution for simulating drift, detecting it in operation, and generating alerts.

SEI Releases Security Engineering Framework

December 17, 2024 • Article

The new framework compiles an actionable hierarchy of the key leading practices for building secure and resilient software-reliant systems.

AI Red-Teaming Workshop Will Explore Best Practices

December 16, 2024 • Article

The free, hybrid workshop will gather artificial intelligence and cybersecurity experts to explore effective red-teaming for generative AI systems.

Carleton Named SEI Fellow

December 11, 2024 • Article

The honor recognizes Carleton’s outstanding contributions to the software community and expected future advancement of the SEI’s mission.

DCSA Presents SEI with Counterintelligence Excellence Award

December 6, 2024 • Article

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency recognized the SEI’s counterintelligence program among more than 12,500 federal contractors with security clearance.

Vessel Tool Enhances Container Reproducibility and Security

December 4, 2024 • Article

The open-source SEI project helps software developers identify the cause of discrepancies between container builds.

Secure Software by Design 2024 Presentations Available

November 20, 2024 • Article

The presentations cover an array of ways to incorporate security earlier in the software lifecycle.

Workshop Explores Challenges and Progress on Certification of Real-Time Cyber-Physical Systems

November 15, 2024 • Article

A recently released report details the second meeting of the Assurance Evidence for Continuously Evolving Real-Time Systems (ASERT) workshop.

SBOM Harmonization Plugfest Opens Call for Participants

November 8, 2024 • Article

The SEI project seeks to uncover sources of divergence among software bills of materials (SBOMs) for the same individual software products.

SEI Director and CEO Paul Nielsen Receives 2024 Cyber Security Hall of Fame Honor

October 29, 2024 • Article

Nielsen joins six other cybersecurity leaders in technology, business, education, government, and innovation as a 2024 honoree.

2024 SEI Research Review Crafts Connections

October 28, 2024 • Article

The event will highlight how SEI researchers build partnerships to create methods, prototypes, and tools that address the nation’s most important software challenges.

New SEI Tool Enhances Machine Learning Model Test and Evaluation

October 17, 2024 • Press Release

Machine Learning Test and Evaluation version 1.0 applies software engineering best practices to ensure ML model development results in production-ready ML models.

SEI's Grace Lewis Elected IEEE Computer Society President

September 30, 2024 • Article

Lewis, an accomplished SEI researcher on the effects of emerging technology on software engineering, will serve as IEEE Computer Society president in 2026.

DevSecOps Days D.C. 2024 Presentations Now Available

September 26, 2024 • Article

Presentations from the September 18 event feature SBOMs, zero trust, open source projects, and other topics on the integration of security into DevOps.

ER 2024 to Feature the Latest on Conceptual Modeling, Artificial Intelligence, and Beyond

September 18, 2024 • Article

The 43rd International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, or ER 2024, will include four days of workshops, tutorials, demonstrations, presentations, and networking.

DevSecOps Days D.C. Announces Agenda and Keynote Speaker

September 4, 2024 • Article

Lt. Col. Christopher Hocking will talk about why DevOps matters to the warfighter.

SEI Launches Course on Developing a National or Government Computer Security Incident Response Team

July 24, 2024 • Article

The new course is intended to help nations develop robust cybersecurity capabilities.

Secure Software by Design Event Announces Keynote Speakers and Agenda

July 22, 2024 • Article

The in-person conference will feature speakers on artificial intelligence, APIs, quantum computing, DevSecOps, and other aspects of software security engineering.

Ozkaya Explores Generative AI in Software Architecture During International Conference Keynote

July 3, 2024 • Article

The IEEE International Conference on Software Architecture is the premier event for the field’s researchers and practitioners.

CERT Insider Risk Symposium to Focus on Deterrence

July 1, 2024 • Article

Registration is open for the Insider Risk Management Symposium, to be held in person August 14 in Arlington, Virginia.

AI Trust and Autonomy Labs Fill the Gap Between AI Breakthroughs and DoD Deployment

June 4, 2024 • Article

SEI researchers are helping the defense sector solve the toughest challenges in the space between humans and artificial intelligence.

Nominations for Humphrey Software Quality Award Open Through September 1

May 16, 2024 • Article

The award recognizes improvement in an organization's ability to create and evolve high-quality software-dependent systems.

New SEI Tool Brings Visibility to DevSecOps Pipelines

May 6, 2024 • Press Release

The Software Engineering Institute today announced the release of a tool to give a comprehensive visualization of the complete DevSecOps pipeline.

IEEE Secure and Trustworthy Machine Learning Conference Awards SEI Researchers’ Trojan Finding Method

May 2, 2024 • Article

Their method uses off-the-shelf tools and generative AI to visualize hidden adversarial images in computer vision models.

2023 Year in Review Highlights Impact of SEI Research and Development

April 15, 2024 • Article

Significant projects in 2023 included work on generative AI, vulnerability management, zero trust, large language models for intelligence, and more.

International Conference on Conceptual Modeling ER 2024 Opens Call for Papers

March 25, 2024 • Article

The long-running event is accepting submissions on how artificial intelligence and machine learning are revolutionizing conceptual modeling.

SEI Event to Collaborate on Approaches to Improve Software Security

March 13, 2024 • Press Release

The CERT Division of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) today announced registration and a call for presentations for Secure Software by Design, a two-day, in-person event on …

SEI and OpenAI Recommend Ways to Evaluate Large Language Models for Cybersecurity Applications

February 21, 2024 • Article

A new white paper says evaluation of LLM capability and risk should include real-world cyber scenarios, not just factual knowledge tests.

Acquisition Security Framework for Managing Engineering and Supply Chain Cyber Risk Released

February 15, 2024 • Article

The latest version of the framework completes the set of practices for acquiring and operating secure and resilient systems across the systems lifecycle.