Podcasts

Understanding Container Reproducibility Challenges: Stopping the Next Solar Winds

July 31, 2025 • Podcast

By Kevin A. Pitstick, Lihan Zhan, Grace Lewis

This podcast explores Vessel, a recent SEI tool that helps developers identify the difference between two container images to help sort benign from problematic issues.

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Mitigating Cyber Risk with Secure by Design

July 22, 2025 • Podcast

By Greg Touhill, Matthew J. Butkovic

This podcast highlights recommendations for making software secure by design that build on prior joint efforts by the SEI and the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency.

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The Magic in the Middle: Evolving Scaled Software for National Defense

June 23, 2025 • Podcast

By Matthew J. Butkovic, Thomas A. Longstaff

SEI chief technical officer Tom Longstaff discusses the SEI’s long-standing work to help the DoD rapidly scale technology including artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous systems.

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Making Process Respectable Again: Advancing DevSecOps in the DoD Mission Space

June 6, 2025 • Podcast

By Bill Nichols, Eileen Wrubel, George Lamb

Warfighters in the DoD operate in high-stakes environments where security, efficiency, and speed are critical. In such environments DevSecOps has become crucial in overall mission success.

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Deploying on the Edge

May 30, 2025 • Podcast

By Patrick Earl, Jose A. Morales, Jeffrey Hamed, Doug Reynolds

Deploying cloud-centric technologies such as Kubernetes in edge environments poses challenges, especially for mission-critical defense systems.

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

May 13, 2025 • Podcast

By Matthew J. Butkovic, John DiRicco, Jarrett Booz

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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