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Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Podcast Series

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

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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 Nie... more

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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 per... more

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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 m... more

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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 ... more

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Recent Guests

James Cunningham
Associate AI Security Researcher
SEI CERT Division
Episode: Protecting AI Systems Against Data Poisoning
Vijay Sarvepalli
Principal Engineer for Vulnerability Analysis with a special focus area on UEFI
SEI
Episode: Goal-Line Defense: A Tool to Discover and Mitigate UEFI Vulnerabilities
Paul Nielsen
Director and former CEO of the Software Engineering Institute at CMU
Software Engineering Institute (CMU)
Episode: Leadership, Legacy, and the Power of Mentors: Insights from Dr. Paul Nielsen
Marie Baker
Technical Manager in CERT Division, Cyber Mission Readiness
SEI CERT Division
Episode: With a Little Help from Our Civilian Friends: Cybersecurity Reserve Is Both Feasible and Advisable
Chris May
Technical Director, CERT's Cyber Mission Readiness
SEI CERT Division
Episode: With a Little Help from Our Civilian Friends: Cybersecurity Reserve Is Both Feasible and Advisable
Ipek Ozkaya
Technical Director for SEI's AI Native Software Engineering work
SEI
Episode: Maturing AI Adoption: From Chaos to Consistency
Dr. Jessie Jamieson
Cyber Security Engineer at the SEI CERT Division with a PhD in Mathematics
Software Engineering Institute
Episode: Getting Your Software Supply Chain In Tune with SBOM Harmonization
McKinley Sconiers-Hasan
Engineer in the CERT Division leading research in API security
Software Engineering Institute
Episode: API Security: An Emerging Concern in Zero Trust Implementations
Matt Gaston
Director of the SEI's Artificial Intelligence Division, leads a team of researchers focused on advancing AI capabilities.
Software Engineering Institute
Episode: Delivering Next-Generation AI Capabilities

Hosts

Mike Winter
Vulnerability Analysis Technical Manager for the SEI CERT Division; multiple episodes feature his insights on cybersecurity and defense-related software.
Matthew Butkovic
Technical Director for Cyber Risk and Resilience; hosts and participates in discussions on AI, software engineering, and defense-related topics.

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4.5 out of 5 stars from 27 ratings
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    exceptional

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    JVo12
    Canada4 years ago
  • Empowering, insightful and actionable! 👏👏👏

    Whether you’re well established as someone innovating in the cybersecurity ecosystem, or just getting started as a catalyst for change within your organization - this is a must-listen podcast for you! Bobbie and the entire SEI team do an incredible job leading conversations that cover a huge breadth of topics related to the ins and outs of navigating an ever changing data and technological landscape - from leaders who’ve actually walked the path. Highly recommend listening and subscribing!

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    JoshCrist
    United States6 years ago

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Produce high-quality conversations that feel trustworthy and informative for decision-makers.
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Guests and hosts are described as credible, thoughtful, and well-connected across defense, academia, and industry.
Content is consistently relevant to cybersecurity, software engineering, and AI governance.

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Protecting AI Systems Against Data Poisoning
Q: What practical steps can organizations take to mitigate data poisoning today?
Implement chain-of-custody controls across the data pipeline, including data signing, hashing, digital signatures, and append-only logs; use anomaly detection and robust training methods; and consider governance frameworks like MITRE Atlas and NIST AI RMF to guide controls.
Protecting AI Systems Against Data Poisoning
Q: What makes data poisoning hard to detect in practice?
Because poisoned data can blend with legitimate data and model failures can arise from multiple sources, it's difficult to attribute a failure to poisoning without rigorous data provenance and anomaly detection.
Protecting AI Systems Against Data Poisoning
Q: Can we start by defining data poisoning for our audience? What is it and how does it occur?
Data poisoning occurs when an adversary tampers with training data or labels, causing the model to behave differently, either by degrading overall performance or triggering specific unwanted responses via backdoors.
An LLM Evaluation Framework for High-Stakes AI
Q: What upcoming work or extensions are you most excited about?
The focus is moving toward agentic evaluation—building benchmarks for AI agents, generating benchmarks from source material, and integrating with Harbor to streamline plugging benchmarks and tests into the framework.
An LLM Evaluation Framework for High-Stakes AI
Q: Who is the Elm library primarily for, and how does it fit into government versus industry usage?
Elm is designed mainly for researchers and can be used by others; it offers decoupled inference and evaluation, open-source access, and is suitable for environments with sensitive data where keeping results local is important.

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What is Software Engineering Institute about and what kind of topics does it cover?

Episodes consistently explore cybersecurity, software engineering, AI governance, and national security implications of technology. Conversations frequently center on practical defense strategies, secure software supply chains, memory safety, AI maturity, and policy-driven initiatives, often featuring researchers, engineers, and leaders from SEI, CMU, and DoD ecosystems. A standout pattern is the emphasis on actionable guidance, open-source tooling, and collaboration across government, academia, and industry, with recurring attention to risk management, resilience, and responsible AI. The mix of technical deep-dives (e.g., UEFI, SBOMs, memory safety) and strategic leadership discussions (mentorship, civilian reserves, AI adoption) makes it ... more

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