Exploring the Fundamentals of Counter AI

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“If we march into that village and we start trying to persecute people for using poison, something that's very illegal, nobody's going to talk to us. We're not going to find out where the poison came from. We're not going to be able to shut anything down. We should take the approach that people are using poison because they're desperate, because they see no other alternative.” – Andrew Stein Andrew Stein is a wildlife ecologist who spent the past 25 years studying human carnivore conflict from African wild dogs and lions in Kenya and Botswana to leopards and hyenas in Namibia. His work has long focused on finding ways for people and predators to coexist. He is the founder of CLAWS , an organization based in Botswana that's working at the intersection of cutting-edge wildlife research and community driven conservation. Since its start in 2014 and official launch as an NGO in 2020, CLAWS has been pioneering science-based, tech-forward strategies to reduce conflict between people and carnivores. By collaborating closely with local communities, especially traditional cattle herders, CLAWS supports both species conservation and rural livelihoods—making coexistence not just possible, but sustainable.…

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As the strategic importance of AI increases, so too does the importance of defending those AI systems. To understand AI defense, it is necessary to understand AI offense—that is, counter AI. In this session, Matthew Butkovic, CISA, CISSP, technical director for risk and resilience, and Nathan VanHoudnos, senior machine learning researcher explore the fundamentals of counter AI.

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Exploring the Fundamentals of Counter AI

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Cyber Maturity Model Certification (CMMC): Protecting the Nation’s Defense Industrial Base 28:02

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The Defense Industrial Base (DIB) is a core element of the national security ecosystem. This point of intersection between private industry and the Department of Defense is a perpetual target for the Nation’s adversaries. In this Intersect, Matthew Butkovic and John Haller explore the development, and implementation, of the Cyber Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) as a means to better protect the DIB.…

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Threat Hunting: What Should Keep All of Us Up at Night 57:09

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When it comes to recognizing threats, cybersecurity professionals may become distracted by big promises or ignore some obvious inspections. New claims made by the latest and greatest new apps draw attention away from network situational awareness best practices—like a dog distracted when it spots a squirrel. We also may deviate from making routine inspections that point toward further investigation—overlooking obvious needs right under our noses. Either becoming distracted or missing obvious inspections can cause us not to detect threats. What Attendees Will Learn: • The distinction between anomalies and threats • Steps to analyze data to detect a threat • The benefits of completing work on one threat…

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Can a Cybersecurity Parametric Cost Model be Developed? 56:25

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Can a cybersecurity parametric cost estimation model be developed? Every Department of Defense (DoD) program needs to account for, credibly estimate, budget/plan for, and assess the performance of its cybersecurity activities. Creating a cybersecurity parametric model would allow DoD programs to reliably estimate the effort and cost of cybersecurity activities, estimate an overall cybersecurity cost for a program, and obtain a defined and normalized set of cybersecurity data. In this webcast, Christopher Miller shares insights from a Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute study on cybersecurity cost estimating that can help national security organizations successfully deploy parametric cost modeling. What Attendees Will Learn: • a proposed work breakdown structure identifying cybersecurity-related activities and cost items, and existing descriptions of secure coding practices and levels of rigor for those practices based on data availability • an approach to develop a cybersecurity parametric cost model • a methodology to develop the cost model…

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Elements of Effective Communications for Cybersecurity Teams 34:00

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Communications, both in times of crisis and during normal operations, are essential to the overall success and sustainability of an incident response or security operations team. How you plan for and manage these communications and how they are received and actioned by your audience will influence your trustworthiness, reputation, and ultimately your ability to perform incident management services effectively. This webcast leverages the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and the Forum of Incident Response and Security Teams (FIRST) CSIRT Services Framework to present communications responsibilities as part of both the standard incident management lifecycle and as an integral piece of crisis management support. What Attendees Will Learn: • various communication types or mechanisms for normal and crisis situations • foundational aspects of managing communications with constituents, the public, and the media • building blocks for an effective communications plan…

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Operational Resilience Fundamentals: Building Blocks of a Survivable Enterprise 52:07

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Surviving disruptive cyber events requires a specific form of planning. One must strike a balance between defending against threats (e.g., managing conditions) and effectively handling the effects of disruption (e.g., managing consequences). Employing a model (such as the CERT Resilience Management Model) provides a catalog of practices and a system of measurement. Focusing on key attributes of performance permits a level of prediction not possible with a basic checklist. In this webcast, Greg Crabbe and Matt Butkovic share their experiences in establishing and maintaining operational resilience programs. What Attendees Will Learn: • how to link mission outcome with asset resilience • how managing for security differs from managing for resilience • how to apply a capability maturity model to the challenge • how to begin analyzing requirements and constructing an operational resilience management program…

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Cybersecurity Priorities in 2025 32:21

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Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) perpetually navigate a dynamic set of challenges. Applying focus and aligning resources is imperative for success. In this Intersect, Matthew Butkovic and Gregory Touhill, reflect on 2024 and explore the topics that should be front of mind for CISOs in 2025. They provide insights and advice for those contemplating cybersecurity priorities.…

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Understanding the Need for Cyber Resilience: A Conversation with Ray Umerley 53:02

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No organization can comprehensively avoid disruptive cyber events. All must strive to maintain operational resilience during times of organizational stress. Ransomware incidents create disruption that can be fatal to the unprepared. In this webcast, we explore how to maintain operational resilience during a ransomware incident. Experts with varied backgrounds provide practical advice for improving your resilience and survivability. What attendees will learn: • best practices for ransomware response • moving beyond security and planning for resilience • pitfalls to avoid in the planning and response processes…

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Exploring the Fundamentals of Counter AI 27:57

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Cyber Challenges in Health Care: Managing for Operational Resilience 53:37

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Health-care organizations are seemingly besieged by a complex set of cyber threats. The consequences of disruptive cyber events in health care are in many ways uniquely troubling. Health-care organizations often face these challenges with modest resources. In this webcast, Matthew Butkovic and Darrell Keeling will explore approaches to maximize return on cybersecurity investment in the health-care context. This will include applying fundamental measures of operational resilience. What Attendees Will Learn: How to yield maximum return on cybersecurity investment in health care How to shift thinking from cybersecurity to operational resilience How to employ free or low-cost cybersecurity resources in the health-care context…

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Independent Verification and Validation for Agile Projects 1:02:23

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Traditionally, independent verification and validation (IV&V) is performed by an independent team throughout a program’s milestones or once the software is formally delivered. This approach allows the IV&V team to provide input at the various milestone gates. As more programs move to an Agile approach, those milestones aren’t as clearly defined since requirements, design, implementation, and testing all happen iteratively, sometimes over years of development. In this new paradigm, IV&V teams are struggling to figure out how to add value to the program earlier in the lifecycle by getting in phase with development. This webcast will highlight a novel approach to providing IV&V for projects using an Agile or iterative software development. What Attendees Will Learn: What adopting an Agile mindset for IV&V could look like How focusing on capabilities and using a risk-based perspective could help drive planning for your team Techniques to help the IV&V team get more in phase with the developer while remaining independent…

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Generative AI and Software Engineering Education 1:02:05

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Within a very short amount of time, the productivity and creativity improvements envisioned by generative artificial intelligence (AI), such as using tools based on large language models (LLMs), have taken the software engineering community by storm. The industry is in a race to develop your next best software development tool. Organizations are perplexed by trying to find the right balance between staying ahead in the race and protecting their data and systems from potential risks presented by using generative AI as part of their software development tool chain. There are haters, evangelists, and everything in between. Software engineering education and educators have a special role. No matter how they perceive the opportunities and challenges of generative AI approaches, software engineering educators are going through a watershed moment that will change how they educate the next generation of software engineers. In this webcast, three experts in software engineering will discuss how generative AI is influencing software engineering education and how to balance key skills development with incorporating generative AI into software engineering curricula. What Attendees Will Learn: • how software engineering education is challenged by the increasing popularity of generative AI tools • how software engineering educators can take advantage of generative AI tools • what fundamental skills will be critical to teach to software engineering students in the era of generative AI…

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Secure Systems Don’t Happen by Accident 59:08

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Traditionally, cybersecurity has focused on finding and removing vulnerabilities. This is like driving backward down the highway using your rearview mirror. Most breaches are due to defects in design or code; thus, the only way to truly address the issue is to design and build more secure solutions. In this webcast, Tim Chick discusses how security is an integral aspect of the entire software lifecycle as a result of following deliberate engineering practices focused on reducing security risks through the use of software assurance techniques. What Attendees Will Learn: • The importance of cybersecurity and examples of when security has failed • Qualities to look at when evaluating third-party software • The relationship between quality and security • Engineering techniques used throughout the development lifecycle to reduce cyber risks…

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Can You Rely on Your AI? Applying the AIR Tool to Improve Classifier Performance 38:50

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Modern analytic methods, including artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) classifiers, depend on correlations; however, such approaches fail to account for confounding in the data, which prevents accurate modeling of cause and effect and often leads to prediction bias. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has developed a new AI Robustness (AIR) tool that allows users to gauge AI and ML classifier performance with unprecedented confidence. This project is sponsored by the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering to transition use of our AIR tool to AI users across the Department of Defense. During the webcast, the research team will hold a panel discussion on the AIR tool and discuss opportunities for collaboration. Our team efforts focus strongly on transition and provide guidance, training, and software that put our transition collaborators on a path to successful adoption of this technology to meet their AI/ML evaluation needs. What Attendees Will Learn: • How AIR adds analytical capability that didn’t previously exist, enabling an analysis to characterize and measure the overall accuracy of the AI as the underlying environment changes • Examples of the AIR process and results from causal discovery to causal identification to causal inference • Opportunities for partnership and collaboration…

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Using a Scenario to Reason About Implementing a Zero Trust Strategy 1:02:22

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There is a lot of documentation about a zero trust architecture, as well as directives that it be used for U.S. federal agencies and the Department of Defense (DoD), but little information on how to go about implementing it to improve an organization’s enterprise or DoD weapon system security. Use cases typically describe requirements for these systems, but they do not provide the contextual awareness that organizations need to help them create a prioritized roadmap to implement zero trust. In this webcast, Tim Morrow, Rhonda Brown, and Elias Miller discuss an approach that organizations can use to help develop the contextual awareness needed to apply a zero trust strategy. What Attendees Will Learn: Overview of a zero trust strategy Roadmap focusing on zero trust for the DoD Engineering approach for mission/workflow Use of a scenario to help reason about zero trust considerations Awareness of an upcoming SEI Zero Trust Industry Day event…

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Ask Us Anything: Supply Chain Risk Management 41:11

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