As a part of an ongoing effort to maintain you knowledgeable about our newest work, this weblog put up summarizes some latest publications from the SEI within the areas of zero belief, DevSecOps, safety-critical programs, software program resilience, and cloud adoption. These publications spotlight the most recent work of SEI technologists in these areas. This put up features a itemizing of every publication, creator(s), and hyperlinks the place they are often accessed on the SEI web site.
Zero Belief Trade Day 2022: Areas of Future Analysis
by Matthew Nicolai, Trista Polaski, and Timothy Morrow
In August 2022, the SEI hosted Zero Belief Trade Day 2022 to allow trade stakeholders to share details about implementing zero belief (ZT). On the occasion, attendees targeted on how federal companies 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, individuals recognized ZT-related points that would profit from further analysis. By specializing in these areas, organizations in authorities, academia, and trade can collaborate to develop options that streamline and speed up ongoing ZTA transformation efforts. On this paper, we focus on a few of these potential analysis areas.
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Does Your DevSecOps Pipeline Solely Perform as Meant?
by Timothy Chick
Understanding and articulating cybersecurity threat 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 atmosphere. Thus, many enterprises are involved that DevSecOps pipeline weaknesses will be abused to inject exploitable vulnerabilities into their services.
Utilizing model-based programs engineering (MBSE), a DevSecOps mannequin will be constructed that considers system assurance and permits organizations to design and execute a totally built-in DevSecOps technique by 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 programs wish to obtain the pliability and velocity 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 approach. On this webcast, Tim Chick discusses how utilizing a DevSecOps mannequin will 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 venture can assist program managers (PMs) leverage current DevSecOps software program growth environments to automate knowledge assortment and combine value, schedule, and engineering efficiency. Utilizing this info, PMs can monitor, forecast, and show program progress.
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A Mannequin-Based mostly Device for Designing Security-Vital Techniques
by Sam Procter and Lutz Wrage
On this SEI Podcast, Sam Procter and Lutz Wrage focus on with Suzanne Miller the Guided Structure Commerce Area Explorer (GATSE), a brand new SEI-developed model-based software to assist with the design of safety-critical programs. The GATSE software permits engineers to judge extra design choices in much less time than they’ll now. This prototype language extension and software program software partially automates the method of model-based programs engineering in order that programs engineers can quickly discover mixtures of various design choices.
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Learn Sam Procter’s weblog put up, which offers a technical clarification the GATSE software.
Trade 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 Trade Day 2022 and offers methods to assist organizations shift to zero belief (ZT). On this paper, the authors describe a number of 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 offered a situation for trade stakeholders to react to and exhibit how they’d deal with sensible issues when a federal company is adopting ZT. In consequence, the SEI recognized a number of themes and corresponding greatest practices offered by these stakeholders that assist authorities organizations plan their ZT journey. Presenters on the occasion showcased numerous options that would deal with the various frequent challenges confronted by federal companies with restricted sources and complicated community architectures, as described within the situation.
Their insights must also assist all authorities organizations higher perceive the views of assorted distributors and the ZT trade 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 Trade Day 2022 will assist organizations as they assess the present vendor panorama and put together for his or her ZT transformation.
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Acquisition Safety Framework (ASF): Managing Techniques Cybersecurity Danger
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 programs throughout the programs lifecycle. It permits applications to judge dangers and gaps of their processes for buying, engineering, and deploying safe software-reliant programs and offers applications extra perception and management over their provide chains. The ASF offers a roadmap for constructing safety and resilience right into a system moderately than “bolting them on” after deployment. The framework is designed to assist applications coordinate the administration of engineering and supply-chain dangers throughout the various elements 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 info sharing. The framework is per cybersecurity engineering, supply-chain administration, and risk-management steerage from the Worldwide Group for Standardization (ISO), Nationwide Institute of Requirements and Know-how (NIST), and Division of Homeland Safety (DHS). This report presents an summary of the ASF and its growth standing. It additionally features a description of the practices which have been developed to date and descriptions a plan for finishing the ASF physique of labor.
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A Prototype Set of Cloud-Adoption Danger Components
by Christopher J. Alberts
This report presents the outcomes of a examine that the SEI carried out to determine a prototype set of threat elements for the adoption of cloud applied sciences. These threat elements 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 threat elements moderately 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-Danger Diagnostic (MRD) for cloud adoption.
The SEI MRD technique defines a time-efficient, mission-oriented strategy for assessing threat in mission threads, enterprise processes, and organizational initiatives.
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A Technique for Element Product Traces: Report 1: Scoping, Targets, and Rationale
by Sholom G. Cohen, John J. Hudak, John McGregor, Gabriel Moreno, Alfred Schenker
That is the primary in a collection of three stories describing the whole Element Product Line Technique. It consists of an adoption strategy that contributes to attaining the enterprise imaginative and prescient and reusability. This report is supplemented by stories that cowl modeling and governance for systematic reuse.
As we speak, elements are designed and developed for integration into a selected weapon system. To attain the goals of the Modular Open Techniques Strategy, elements have to be designed and developed to be built-in into a number of weapon programs. This primary report defines a technique for attaining a number of part product traces in assist of navy weapon programs. The report offers an summary of product traces from the acquirer’s facet—methods to specify product line capabilities, present these part product line specification fashions (CPLSMs) to a group of suppliers, and create a market of elements.
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 approach for individuals to study and develop hands-on technical expertise, and so they serve to determine and reward gifted cybersecurity practitioners. In addition they kind half of a bigger, multifaceted effort for guaranteeing that the nation has a extremely expert cybersecurity workforce to safe its essential infrastructure programs and to defend in opposition to cyberattacks. To assist assist 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 creating cybersecurity challenges for the President’s Cup Cybersecurity Competitors and offers general-purpose tips and greatest practices for creating efficient cybersecurity challenges.
Learn the SEI technical report.