Mar 25
2013
By David Svoboda
CERT Secure Coding Team
This
blog post describes a research initiative aimed at eliminating
vulnerabilities resulting from memory management problems in C and C++.
Memory problems in C and C++ can lead to serious software
vulnerabilities including difficulty fixing bugs, performance
impediments, program crashes (including null pointer deference and out-of-memory errors), and remote code execution.
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Mar 18
2013
Second in a Series on Readiness Fit Analysis for Adoption of Agile Methods
By Suzanne Miller
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Acquisition Support Program
The adoption of new practices, such as agile
or any new practice for that matter, is a task that is best undertaken
with both eyes open. There are often disconnects between the adopting
organization’s current practice and culture and the new practices being
adopted. This posting is the second installment in a series on Readiness & Fit Analysis (RFA),
which is a model and method for understanding risks when contemplating
or embarking on the adoption of new practices, in this case agile
methods. The RFA method helps organizations understand the barriers and
enablers to successful adoption that are present when an analysis is
performed. The first post in this series outlined the principles of RFA and described the Acquisition Support Program’s
work in extending RFA to support profiling and adoption risk
identification to organizations that are adopting agile methods. This
blog post continues the discussion with a more in-depth dive into one
more of the six RFA categories that we have identified.
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Mar 11
2013
By Julien Delange
Senior Member of the Technical Staff
Research Technology & System Solutions
When
a system fails, engineers too often focus on the physical components,
but pay scant attention to the software. In software-reliant systems
ignoring or deemphasizing the importance of software failures can be a
recipe for disaster. This blog post is the first in a series on recent
developments with the Architecture Analysis Design Language (AADL) standard.
Future posts will explore recent tools and projects associated with
AADL, which provides formal modeling concepts for the description and
analysis of application systems architecture in terms of distinct
components and their interactions. As this series will demonstrate, the
use of AADL helps alleviate mismatched assumptions between the hardware,
software, and their interactions that can lead to system failures.
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Mar 4
2013
By Grace Lewis
Technical Lead,
Edge-Enabled Tactical Systems Research
In
2011, Col. Timothy Hill, director of the Futures Directorate within the
Army Intelligence and Security Command, urged industry to take a more
open-standards approach to cloud computing. “Interoperability
between clouds, as well as the portability of files from one cloud to
another, has been a sticking point in general adoption of cloud
computing,” Hill said during a panel at the AFCEA International 2011 Joint Warfighting Conference.
Hill’s view has been echoed by many in the cloud computing community,
who believe that the absence of interoperability has become a barrier to
adoption. This posting reports on recent research exploring the role of standards in cloud computing and offers recommendations for future standardization efforts.
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