As a part of an ongoing effort to maintain you knowledgeable about our newest work, this weblog submit summarizes some current publications from the SEI within the areas of zero belief, DevSecOps, safety-critical methods, software program resilience, and cloud adoption. These publications spotlight the most recent work of SEI technologists in these areas. This submit features a itemizing of every publication, creator(s), and hyperlinks the place they are often accessed on the SEI web site.
Zero Belief Business Day 2022: Areas of Future Analysis
by Matthew Nicolai, Trista Polaski, and Timothy Morrow
In August 2022, the SEI hosted Zero Belief Business Day 2022 to allow business stakeholders to share details about implementing zero belief (ZT). On the occasion, attendees targeted on how federal businesses with restricted sources can implement a zero-trust structure (ZTA) that adheres to govt orders M-22-009 and M-21-31, each of which deal with federal cybersecurity measures.
Throughout these discussions, members recognized ZT-related points that might profit from further analysis. By specializing in these areas, organizations in authorities, academia, and business can collaborate to develop options that streamline and speed up ongoing ZTA transformation efforts. On this paper, we talk about a few of these potential analysis areas.
Learn the white paper.
Does Your DevSecOps Pipeline Solely Perform as Supposed?
by Timothy Chick
Understanding and articulating cybersecurity danger is difficult. With the adoption of DevSecOps instruments and methods and the elevated coupling between the product being constructed and the instruments used to construct them, the assault floor of the product continues to develop by incorporating segments of the event surroundings. Thus, many enterprises are involved that DevSecOps pipeline weaknesses could be abused to inject exploitable vulnerabilities into their services.
Utilizing model-based methods engineering (MBSE), a DevSecOps mannequin could be constructed that considers system assurance and permits organizations to design and execute a totally built-in DevSecOps technique through which stakeholder wants are addressed with cybersecurity in all elements of the DevSecOps pipeline. An assurance case can be utilized to indicate the adequacy of the mannequin for each the pipeline and the embedded or distributed system. Whereas builders of embedded and distributed methods need to obtain the pliability and pace anticipated when making use of DevSecOps, reference materials and a repeatable defensible course of are wanted to substantiate {that a} given DevSecOps pipeline is applied in a safe, secure, and sustainable method. On this webcast, Tim Chick discusses how utilizing a DevSecOps mannequin could be constructed utilizing MBSE.
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Program Managers—The DevSecOps Pipeline Can Present Actionable Knowledge
by Julie Cohen and Invoice Nichols
This paper by Julie Cohen and Invoice Nichols describes how the Software program Engineering Institute’s Automated Steady Estimation for a Pipeline of Pipelines (ACE/PoPs) analysis challenge will help program managers (PMs) leverage present DevSecOps software program growth environments to automate knowledge assortment and combine price, schedule, and engineering efficiency. Utilizing this data, PMs can observe, forecast, and show program progress.
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A Mannequin-Based mostly Instrument for Designing Security-Crucial Methods
by Sam Procter and Lutz Wrage
On this SEI Podcast, Sam Procter and Lutz Wrage talk about with Suzanne Miller the Guided Structure Commerce House Explorer (GATSE), a brand new SEI-developed model-based device to assist with the design of safety-critical methods. The GATSE device permits engineers to guage extra design choices in much less time than they’ll now. This prototype language extension and software program device partially automates the method of model-based methods engineering in order that methods engineers can quickly discover mixtures of various design choices.
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Learn Sam Procter’s weblog submit, which gives a technical rationalization the GATSE device.
Business Greatest Practices for Zero-Belief Structure
by Matthew Nicolai, Nathaniel Richmond, Timothy Morrow
This paper describes greatest practices recognized throughout the SEI’s Zero Belief Business Day 2022 and gives methods to assist organizations shift to zero belief (ZT). On this paper, the authors describe among the ZT greatest practices recognized throughout the two-day workshop and supply SEI commentary and evaluation on methods for organizations to empower their ZT transformations.
The 2022 occasion supplied a state of affairs for business stakeholders to react to and display how they might deal with sensible issues when a federal company is adopting ZT. Consequently, the SEI recognized a number of themes and corresponding greatest practices introduced by these stakeholders that assist authorities organizations plan their ZT journey. Presenters on the occasion showcased varied options that might deal with the various widespread challenges confronted by federal businesses with restricted sources and sophisticated community architectures, as described within the state of affairs.
Their insights must also assist all authorities organizations higher perceive the views of assorted distributors and the ZT business as an entire and the way these views match into total federal authorities efforts. We on the SEI are assured that the insights gained from SEI Zero Belief Business Day 2022 will help organizations as they assess the present vendor panorama and put together for his or her ZT transformation.
Learn the SEI white paper.
Acquisition Safety Framework (ASF): Managing Methods Cybersecurity Threat
by Christopher J. Alberts, Michael S. Bandor, Charles M. Wallen, Carol Woody, PhD
The Acquisition Safety Framework (ASF) is a set of main practices for constructing and working safe and resilient software-reliant methods throughout the methods lifecycle. It permits packages to guage dangers and gaps of their processes for buying, engineering, and deploying safe software-reliant methods and gives packages extra perception and management over their provide chains. The ASF gives a roadmap for constructing safety and resilience right into a system reasonably than “bolting them on” after deployment. The framework is designed to assist packages coordinate the administration of engineering and supply-chain dangers throughout the various parts of a system, together with {hardware}, community interfaces, software program interfaces, and mission capabilities. ASF practices promote proactive dialogue throughout all program and provider groups, serving to to combine communications channels and facilitate data sharing. The framework is in step with cybersecurity engineering, supply-chain administration, and risk-management steerage from the Worldwide Group for Standardization (ISO), Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Expertise (NIST), and Division of Homeland Safety (DHS). This report presents an outline of the ASF and its growth standing. It additionally features a description of the practices which have been developed to this point and descriptions a plan for finishing the ASF physique of labor.
Learn the SEI technical be aware.
A Prototype Set of Cloud-Adoption Threat Components
by Christopher J. Alberts
This report presents the outcomes of a examine that the SEI carried out to establish a prototype set of danger components for the adoption of cloud applied sciences. These danger components cowl a broad vary of potential issues that may have an effect on a cloud initiative, together with enterprise technique and processes, know-how administration and implementation, and organizational tradition.
The publication of this report is an preliminary step within the growth of cloud-adoption danger components reasonably than the end result of SEI work on this space. This report identifies a spread of potential future growth and transition duties associated to the Mission-Threat Diagnostic (MRD) for cloud adoption.
The SEI MRD methodology defines a time-efficient, mission-oriented method for assessing danger in mission threads, enterprise processes, and organizational initiatives.
Learn the SEI white paper.
A Technique for Part Product Strains: Report 1: Scoping, Aims, and Rationale
by Sholom G. Cohen, John J. Hudak, John McGregor, Gabriel Moreno, Alfred Schenker
That is the primary in a sequence of three reviews describing the whole Part Product Line Technique. It consists of an adoption method that contributes to attaining the enterprise imaginative and prescient and reusability. This report is supplemented by reviews that cowl modeling and governance for systematic reuse.
As we speak, parts are designed and developed for integration into a particular weapon system. To attain the targets of the Modular Open Methods Strategy, parts should be designed and developed to be built-in into a number of weapon methods. This primary report defines a method for attaining a number of element product strains in help of army weapon methods. The report gives an outline of product strains from the acquirer’s aspect— specify product line capabilities, present these element product line specification fashions (CPLSMs) to a neighborhood of suppliers, and create a market of parts.
Learn the SEI particular report.
Problem-Growth Pointers for Cybersecurity Competitions
by Jarrett Booz, Leena Arora, Joseph Vessella, Matt Kaar, Dennis M. Allen, and Josh Hammerstein
Cybersecurity competitions present a method for members to study and develop hands-on technical expertise, they usually serve to establish and reward gifted cybersecurity practitioners. In addition they type half of a bigger, multifaceted effort for guaranteeing that the nation has a extremely expert cybersecurity workforce to safe its important infrastructure methods and to defend towards cyberattacks. To assist help these efforts of cultivating the talents of cybersecurity practitioners and of constructing a workforce to safeguard the nation, this paper attracts on the Software program Engineering Institute’s expertise growing cybersecurity challenges for the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competitors and gives general-purpose tips and greatest practices for growing efficient cybersecurity challenges.
Learn the SEI technical report.
