Software Engineering Institute

New AI Flaw Reporting System Fills Crucial Security Gap

Flaw Reporting for AI (FLARE-AI) allows developers and security researchers to submit artificial intelligence flaws for formal, coordinated disclosure.
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Why Battle-tested Software Engineering Still Matters in the Age of AI

While use of AI in developing and maintaining software is increasing globally, this use is relatively new, and proven practices for using AI effectively are still emerging. There are different ways to ...
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The SEI CERT Coding Standard for Fortran

Svoboda, D., 2026: The SEI CERT Coding Standard for Fortran. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed July 1, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58012/w9t7-6y96. This blog ...
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SEI and Accenture Release AI Adoption Maturity Model to Help Organizations Scale AI with Predictable Outcomes

PITTSBURGH, Pa., June 8, 2026—The Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and Accenture today released the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Adoption Maturity Model, an empirically ...
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AI-Native Software Engineering: Enduring Principles, New Pace

AI is rapidly changing how software is produced but not the need to engineer software to meet business and mission goals. AI is enabling developers to move from idea to implementation at incredible ...
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SOK: Bridging Research and Practice in LLM Agent Security

Large Language Model agents are rapidly transitioning from research prototypes to deployed systems, raising new and urgent security challenges. Unlike static chatbots, LLM agents interact with ...
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CaTE: Increasing Warfighter Trust in Autonomous Systems to Accelerate Adoption of Cutting-Edge Capabilities

For the Department of Defense (DoD) to safely and quickly adopt new software capabilities, especially autonomous systems, we must improve every step in the development and engineering process to ...
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7 Recommendations to Improve SBOM Quality

Tobar, D., Jamieson, J., Priest, M., and Fricke, J., 2025: 7 Recommendations to Improve SBOM Quality. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed July 1, 2026 ...
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Generative AI and Software Engineering Education

Ozkaya, I., and Schmidt, D., 2024: Generative AI and Software Engineering Education. Carnegie Mellon University, Software Engineering Institute's Insights (blog ...
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5 Recommendations to Help Your Organization Manage Technical Debt

Ozkaya, I., and O'Hearn, B., 2024: 5 Recommendations to Help Your Organization Manage Technical Debt. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed June 24, 2026 ...
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The Top 10 Skills CISOs Need in 2024

Touhill, G., 2024: The Top 10 Skills CISOs Need in 2024. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed July 2, 2026, https://doi.org/10.58012/tphr-nz17. The role of ...
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The 13 Key Elements of an Insider Threat Program

Costa, D., and Trzeciak, R., 2023: The 13 Key Elements of an Insider Threat Program. Software Engineering Institute blog, Accessed July 1, 2026, https://doi.org/10. ...