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Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series

Members of Technical Staff at the Software Engineering Institute

The SEI Podcast Series presents conversations in software engineering, cybersecurity, and future technologies.

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Threat Modeling: Protecting Our Nation’s Complex...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/09/05

In response to Executive Order (EO) 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommended 11 practices for software verification. Threat modeling is at the top of the list. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Natasha Shevchenko and Alex Vesey, both engineers with the SEI’s CERT Division, sit down with Timothy Chick, technical manager of CERT’s Applied Systems Group, to discuss how

25:10

Understanding Container Reproducibility Challenges:...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/07/30

Container images are increasingly being used as the main method for software deployment, so ensuring the reproducibility of container images is becoming a critical step in protecting the software supply chain. In practice, however, builds are often not reproducible due to elements of the build environment that rely on nondeterministic factors such as timestamps and external dependencies. Lack of reproducibility can lead to lack of trust, broken builds, and possibly mask hidden malware insertion

Mitigating Cyber Risk with Secure by Design

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/07/14

Software enables our way of life, but market forces have sidelined security concerns leaving systems vulnerable to attack. Fixing this problem will require the software industry to develop an initial standard for creating software that is secure by design. These are the findings of a recently released paper coauthored by Greg Touhill, director of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) CERT Division. In this latest SEI podcast, Touhill and Matthew Butkovic, director of Cyber Risk and Resilience at

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The Magic in the Middle: Evolving Scaled Software...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/06/18

A January 2025 Defense Innovation Board study on scaling nontraditional defense innovation stated, “We must act swiftly to ensure the DoD leads in global innovation and competition over AI and autonomous systems – and is a trendsetter for their responsible use in modern warfare." In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), chief technical officer Tom Longstaff discusses the SEI’s long-standing work to help the DoD rapidly scale technology including

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Making Process Respectable Again: Advancing DevSecOps...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/06/04

Warfighters in the Department of Defense (DoD) operate in high-stakes environments where security, efficiency, and speed are critical. In such environments DevSecOps has become crucial in the drive toward modernization and overall mission success. A recent study led by researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) examined the state of DevSecOps within the Department of Defense. In this podcast, Eileen Wrubel, the SEI’s Transforming Software Acquisition Policy

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Deploying on the Edge

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/05/28

Deploying cloud-centric technologies such as Kubernetes in edge environments poses challenges, especially for mission-critical defense systems. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Patrick Earl, Doug Reynolds, and Jeffrey Hamed, all DevOps engineers in the SEI's Software Solutions Division, sit down with senior reesearcher Jose Morales to discuss a recent case study involving the deployment of a hypervisor onto edge devices in a

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The Best and Brightest: 6 Years of Supporting the...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/05/12

A strong cyber defense is vital to public- and private-sector activities in the United States. In 2019, in response to an executive order to strengthen America’s cybersecurity workforce, the Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) partnered with the SEI to develop and run the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competition, a national cyber competition that identifies and rewards the best cybersecurity talent in the federal workforce. In six years,

Updating Risk Assessment in the CERT Secure Coding...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/04/17

Bringing a codebase into compliance with the SEI CERT Coding Standards, requires a cost of time and effort, namely in the form of a static analysis tool. But those who are familiar with static analysis tools know that the alerts are not always reliable and produce false positives that must be detected and disregarded. This year, we plan on making some exciting updates to the SEI CERT C Coding Standard to better harmonize with the current state of the art for static analysis tools, as well as