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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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21:58

Breaking Down Barriers: How LLMs Enable Software...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/08/06

The recent explosion in large language model (LLM) technology has highlighted the challenges of using public generative artificial intelligence tools in classified environments, especially for software analysis. Currently, software analysis falls on the shoulders of static analysis tools and manual code review, which tend to provide limited technical depth and are often time-consuming in practice. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Ryan

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16:54

Data-Driven Defense: Cyber Resilience in the Age of AI

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/07/31

Data breaches remind us of the importance of cyber resilience as an essential element of survivability and continuity of operations for all organizations, especially those operating mission-essential systems, high-value systems, and/or critical assets. Resilience is also critical to reducing the costs associated with security breaches as well as minimizing damage to mission-essential systems caused by adverse events. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering

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12:43

Software-Defined Warfare: Expanding the Frontier

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/07/08

Software-defined warfare is today's reality for national security, shifting the emphasis in military operations from hardware to software. In the latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, SEI director Paul Nielsen recently sat down with Matthew Butkovic, technical director of Risk and Resilience in the SEI's CERT Division, to discuss the evolution of software-defined warfare and the ways in which software engineering practices can meaningfully address the

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18:38

From Coordination Chaos to Mission Focus: The...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/06/24

In aviation, waypoints guide pilots through complex flight plans, providing some structure but maintaining flexibility. Kevin Dooley, a senior Agile transformation leader at the SEI, adopted this concept to solve one of defense acquisition's most persistent challenges: synchronizing dozens of interdependent teams without drowning in administrative noise and overhead. In the latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Dooley, who co-developed the Waypoints

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16:33

An LLM Evaluation Framework for High-Stakes AI

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/06/11

Experimentation and validation of LLM performance is critical when building LLM-driven systems that must reliably deliver a service, from customer service chat bots to intelligence analysis tools. To help teams meet the need for rigorous evaluation methods, a research team in the SEI's AI Division led by Violet Turri has developed the Evaluating Large Language Models (ELM) library, which is built on best practices for LLM evaluation and benchmarking. In the latest episode from the Carnegie Mellon

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20:01

Protecting AI Systems Against Data Poisoning

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/06/04

Data poisoning—where adversaries tamper with training data to corrupt model behavior—poses significant risks as AI adoption expands across critical sectors. Organizations without mechanisms in place to detect or prevent data poisoning are open to an avenue of attack that, once exploited, is difficult to remediate. Machine unlearning and model retraining are not always viable or effective solutions. In today's operational climate, where threat actors look to influence models and degrade the trust of

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41:19

Goal-Line Defense: A Tool to Discover and Mitigate...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/04/15

As recently as December 2025, the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI's) CERT Coordination Center (CERT/CC) documented a UEFI-related vulnerability in certain motherboard models, illustrating that early-boot firmware behavior continues to present security challenges despite requiring local physical access to exploit. While CERT/CC reported seven UEFI vulnerabilities in 2025, that number remains small compared to reported vulnerabilities in other software. However,

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18:58

Leadership, Legacy, and the Power of Mentors:...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/04/06

In February 2026, Paul Nielsen announced that he will transition out of his role as director and chief executive officer of the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University. During Nielsen's tenure, the SEI has marked major institutional milestones that underscore its enduring role in strengthening the security, resilience, and reliability of the nation's software- and AI-intensive systems. The institute recently celebrated 40 years of innovation and saw its contract renewed,

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49:17

With a Little Help from Our Civilian Friends:...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/03/20

Cybersecurity staffing shortages are a major concern in the government given the increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks on the nation's critical infrastructure. In the FY2023 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), Congress tasked the Pentagon with finding flexible options to address cyber staffing needs. The Pentagon commissioned the SEI to conduct an independent study to assess the feasibility and advisability of creating a civilian cybersecurity reserve (CCR) that could harness cyber

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25:32

Maturing AI Adoption: From Chaos to Consistency

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/03/02

While Stanford University found that AI investments, optimism, and accessibility are rising, a recent MIT report suggests that 95 percent of organizations are realizing no returns on their generative AI investments. Research from Accenture found that only 8 percent of companies are scaling AI at an enterprise level and embedding the technology into core business strategy to maximize value. Mismatched expectations, misaligned applications, and poorly executed or untested implementation practices—not

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24:25

Temporal Memory Safety in C and C++: An AI-Enhanced...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/02/09

In October 2025, CyberPress reported a critical security vulnerability in the Redis Server, an open-source in-memory database that allowed authenticated attackers to achieve remote code execution through a use-after-free flaw in the Lua scripting engine. In 2024, another prominent temporal memory safety flaw was found in the Netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel: CVE-2024-1086. Bugs related to temporal memory safety, such as use-after-free and double-free vulnerabilities, are challenging issues in

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24:48

AI for the Warfighter: Acquisition Challenges and...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/01/29

On November 7, the Department of War released an acquisition transformation strategy that seeks to remove bureaucratic hurdles and streamline acquisition processes to enable even more rapid adoption of technologies, including artificial intelligence. Getting AI into the hands of warfighters requires disciplined AI Engineering. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute, Carol Smith, lead of human-centered research in the SEI's AI Division, and Brigid O'Hearn,

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35:59

Visibility Through the Clouds with Network Flow Logs

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2026/01/15

Organizations, including the U.S. military, are increasingly adopting cloud deployments for their flexibility and cost savings. The shared security model utilized by cloud service providers removes some of the adopting organization's responsibility for system administration and security. But it leaves them on the hook for monitoring hosted applications and resources. Cloud flow logs are a valuable source of data for supporting these security responsibilities and attaining situational awareness. The

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37:07

Orchestrating the Chaos: Protecting Wireless Networks...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/12/02

From early 2022 through late 2024, a group of threat actors publicly known as APT28 exploited known vulnerabilities, such as CVE-2022-38028, to remotely and wirelessly access sensitive information from a targeted company network. This attack did not require any hardware to be placed in the vicinity of the targeted company's network as the attackers were able to execute remotely from thousands of miles away. With the ubiquity of Wi-Fi, cellular networks, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the

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26:42

From Data to Performance: Understanding and Improving...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/11/10

Modern data analytic methods and tools—including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) classifiers—are revolutionizing prediction capabilities and automation through their capacity to analyze and classify data. To produce such results, these methods depend on correlations. However, an overreliance on correlations can lead to prediction bias and reduced confidence in AI outputs. Drift in data and concept, evolving edge cases, and emerging phenomena can undermine the

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36:14

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Safety Analysis for AI...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/10/31

How can you ever know whether an LLM is safe to use? Even self-hosted LLM systems are vulnerable to adversarial prompts left on the internet and waiting to be found by system search engines. These attacks and others exploit the complexity of even seemingly secure AI systems. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), David Schulker and Matthew Walsh, both senior data scientists in the SEI's CERT Division, sit down with Thomas Scanlon, lead of

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23:14

Getting Your Software Supply Chain Intune with SBOM...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/10/23

Software bills of materials or SBOMs are critical to software security and supply chain risk management. Ideally, regardless of the SBOM tool, the output should be consistent for a given piece of software. But that is not always the case. The divergence of results can undermine confidence in software quality and security. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Jessie Jamieson, a senior cyber risk engineer in the SEI’s CERT Division, sits down

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17:41

API Security: An Emerging Concern in Zero Trust...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/10/08

Application programing interfaces, more commonly known as APIs, are the engines behind the majority of internet traffic. The pervasive and public nature of APIs have increased the attack surface of the systems and applications they are used in. In this podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), McKinley Sconiers-Hasan, a solutions engineer in the SEI’s CERT Division, sits down with Tim Morrow, Situational Awareness Technical Manager, also with the CERT

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30:18

Delivering Next-Generation AI Capabilities

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/09/29

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a transformational technology, but it has limitations in challenging operational settings. Researchers in the AI Division of the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) work to deliver reliable and secure AI capabilities to warfighters in mission-critical environments. In our latest podcast, Matt Gaston, director of the SEI’s AI Division, sits down with Matt Butkovic, technical director of the SEI CERT Division’s Cyber Risk and Resilience

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19:38

The Benefits of Rust Adoption for...

Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series ·

2025/09/16

A recent Google survey found that many developers felt comfortable using the Rust programming language in two months or less. Yet barriers to Rust adoption remain, particularly in safety-critical systems, where features such as memory and processing power are in short supply and compliance with regulations is mandatory. In our latest podcast from the Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Vaughn Coates, an engineer in the SEI’s Software Solutions Division, sits down with

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