May 28
2012
By Douglas C. Schmidt
Principal Researcher
Happy Memorial Day. As part of an ongoing effort
to keep you informed about our latest work, I'd like to let you know
about some recently published SEI technical reports and notes. These
reports highlight the latest work of SEI technologists in architecture analysis, patterns for insider threat monitoring, source code analysis and insider threat security reference architecture.
This post includes a listing of each report, author(s), and links where
the published reports can be accessed on the SEI website.
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May 21
2012
By Marc Novakouski,
Member of the Technical Staff
Research, Technology & System Solutions
Our
modern data infrastructure has become very effective at getting the
information you need, when you need it. This infrastructure has become
so effective that we rely on having instant access to information in
many aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, there are still situations in
which the data infrastructure cannot meet our needs due to various
limitations at the tactical edge,
which is a term used to describe hostile environments with limited
resources, from war zones in Afghanistan to disaster relief in countries
like Haiti and Japan. This blog post describes our ongoing research in the Advanced Mobile Systems initiative at the SEI on edge-enabled tactical systems to address problems at the tactical edge.
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May 14
2012
By Randy Trzeciak
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
The CERT Program
According to the 2011 CyberSecurity Watch Survey,
approximately 21 percent of cyber crimes against organizations are
committed by insiders. Of the 607 organizations participating in the
survey, 46 percent stated that the damage caused by insiders was more
significant than the damage caused by outsiders. Over the past 11 years,
researchers at the CERT Insider Threat Center
have documented incidents related to malicious insider activity. Their
sources include media reports, the courts, the United States Secret
Service, victim organizations, and interviews with convicted felons.
From these cases, CERT researchers have identified four models of
insider threat behavior: (1) information technology (IT) sabotage, (2) fraud,
(3) national security/espionage, and (4) theft of intellectual property
(IP). Using those patterns, our researchers have developed network
monitoring controls that combine technological tools with behavioral
indicators to warn network traffic analysts of potential malicious
behavior. While these controls do not necessarily identify ongoing cyber
crimes, they may identify behaviors of at-risk insiders that an
organization should consider for further investigation. This blog
posting, the second in a series highlighting controls developed by the CERT Insider Threat Center, explores controls developed to prevent, identify, or detect IT sabotage.
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May 7
2012
Part 2: Understanding Success Drivers
By Douglas C. Schmidt,
Principal Researcher
Common operating platform environments (COPEs) are reusable software infrastructures that incorporate open standards; define portable interfaces, interoperable protocols, and data models; offer complete design disclosure; and have a modular, loosely coupled, and well-articulated software architecture that provides applications and end users with many shared capabilities. COPEs can help reduce recurring engineering costs, as well as enable developers to build better and more powerful applications atop a COPE, rather than wrestling repeatedly with tedious and error-prone infrastructure concerns. Despite technical advances during the past decade, however, building affordable and dependable COPE-based solutions for the DoD remains elusive. This blog posting—the second in a three-part series—builds upon the first posting to describe key success drivers for COPEs that proactively and intentionally exploit commonality across multiple DoD acquisition programs.
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