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Comic-BEE Wins DHS S&T Funded Performer Award

Read full text Comic-BEE has received the Building Tomorrow’s Workforce Award from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology (DHS S&T) Directorate’s Funded Performer Awards. DHS S&T awards this honor to a funded project that best helps develop the next generation of cybersecurity professionals. The award ceremony took place on March 19th, as part of the 2019 DHS S&T Cybersecurity and Innovation Showcase in Washington, D.C. Laurin Buchanan, Principal Investigator for Comic-BEE, attended the ceremony and accepted the award. “I am deeply honored by this acknowledgement of Comic-BEE’s broad potential on the cyber workforce pipeline, from K12 students to adults already in the workforce, including those reskilling for cyber work roles,” Ms. Buchanan said. “I am grateful for all the support and encouragement Comic-BEE has received from Doug Maughan and his [...]

Secure Decisions2019-05-08T09:44:00-04:00Mar-2019|Categories: News, Press Releases|

Secure Decisions Demonstrates Newest Software Penetration Testing Technology at Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity Showcase

Secure Decisions, a division of Applied Visions, Inc. and a leader in cybersecurity research, will be participating in the 2019 S&T Cybersecurity and Innovation Showcase hosted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate, March 18-20, 2019 in Washington, D.C.

Secure Decisions2019-08-05T11:15:03-04:00Mar-2019|Categories: News, Press Releases|

Assessment of the Attack Surface Detector Burp Plugin

A case study done by MWR on the ASTAM ASD technology. The Challenge In the realm of application security, penetration testing organizations are faced with many serious testing challenges. Organizations developing software are continuously creating larger, more complex software systems, and, as a result, increasingly rely upon penetration testers to devise comprehensive testing strategies and detailed testing scenarios to ensure the security of the web applications they are responsible for testing. Download the full text

Secure Decisions2019-02-28T16:42:33-05:00Feb-2019|Categories: Case Study, News|

DHS S&T Adds Real-World Benchmarks to Software Assurance Repository

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) recently completed the integration of more than 9,700 real-world software test cases from the Static Tools Analysis Modernization Project (STAMP) into the Software Assurance Marketplace (SWAMP).

Secure Decisions2019-02-11T15:18:20-05:00Jan-2019|Categories: News|Tags: critical infrastructure, Cyber, cyber security, cybersecurity, R&D, Science and Technology|

Secure Decisions releases new technology to help streamline and enhance web application penetration testing

Secure Decisions, has developed a new application security testing technology, the Attack Surface Detector (ASD), that enhances and streamlines software penetration testing. Developed under the DHS S&T Directorate’s multi-year funded ASTAM (Application Security Technologies and Metrics) program.

Secure Decisions2019-03-27T09:36:24-04:00Jan-2019|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: ASD, ASTAM, Attack Surface Detector|

Secure Decisions will be speaking at BSides Long Island January 26

BSidesLI is an information security conference that’s completely volunteer operated and organized. By bringing a BSides conference here to Long Island, it helps to form a community of like minded people who share similar attributes. It promotes the ability to expand their knowledge or strength by organizing with others of a shared affinity. The event is on Saturday, January 26 at 9:30—4:00pm. (Breakfast and registration starting at 8:30–9:20am.) Schedule for Saturday, January 26 9:45–10:25am – Kickoff Keynote – Dr. Anita D’Amico, Ph.D., Director of Secure Decisions/CEO of Code Dx Human Factors that Influence Secure Software Development 10:30–11:05am – Sam Fahnestock, SD Solutions Continuous Security: Delivering Valuable & Secure Software 2–2:20pm – Matt DeLetto, AVI/Secure Decisions Attack Surface Detector: New OWASP Tool to Aid Application Pen-testing Register to attend the event

Secure Decisions2019-02-13T11:56:12-05:00Jan-2019|Categories: Events|Tags: BSides|

Secure Decisions Researcher Chris Horn to participate in DARPA workshop on AI in cyber security teams

Chris Horn was invited to participate in a two-day workshop organized by the DARPA ISAT Study Group. The purpose of the workshop is to explore the requirements for AI systems that act as a functioning member of a cyber security team.

Secure Decisions2019-05-17T09:55:33-04:00Jan-2019|Categories: Events, Press Releases|Tags: artificial intelligence, Chris Horn, cyber security, DARPA|

Dr. Anita D’Amico quoted in Newsday article about Women Professionalism

A recent Newsday article by Ken Schachter titled "Progress slow in adding women in the boardrooms" includes Secure Decisions Director, Dr. Anita D'Amico.

Secure Decisions2018-12-31T10:28:15-05:00Dec-2018|Categories: News|Tags: Anita D'Amico, Newsday|

Secure Decisions receives new NSF award for cybersecurity education

Secure Decisions has received an award from the NSF under the SaTC: EDU Program. One of only ten projects funded in 2018 under this highly competitive program from NSF, the CyberMiSTS project aims to provide middle school Career and Technical Education (CTE) teachers with knowledge, skills, and tools they need to develop a cybersecurity curriculum that actively engages their students and exposes them to cybersecurity concepts and careers.

Secure Decisions2018-12-13T10:01:45-05:00Dec-2018|Categories: News, Press Releases|Tags: BIGSCE, Career and Technology Education, comic-bee, CTE, CyberMiSTS, cybersecurity, DHS, Laurin Buchanan, NSF, NSF Award, Secure Decisions|

Dr. Anita D’Amico and Chris Horn presented Human factors that influence secure software development

Dr. Anita D’Amico and Chris Horn gave a well-received presentation about the Human factors that influence secure software development. View the Presentation slides ------------------------------- The following Tweets were given during their presentation: 10:37 AM – 12 Oct 2018 Robert A.‏ @robertauger The talk ‘https://appsecus2018.sched.com/event/F04Q…’ at appsec USA is one of the best talks I’ve seen in the last several years. They quantify with several studies, vuln introduction rates and behaviors by dev teams. Lots of good data. Great job @AnitaDamico 10:51 AM – 12 Oct 2018 jamestyack‏ @jamestyack @AnitaDamico talking human factors that influence app security with tons of empirical data. An interesting finding: the more verbose (& low substance) the commit comments, the higher the chance of problems in the code. Beware the “blather factor”. #AppSecUSA18

Secure Decisions2019-02-13T11:00:59-05:00Nov-2018|Categories: News|

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