#] #] ********************* #] "$d_PROJECTS"'9_My sports & clubs/SERC notes.txt' www.BillHowell.ca 23Feb2022 initial from '_Howell - email signature.txt' To view this file - use a text editor (not word processor) constant width font (eg courrier 10), tab - 3 spaces 24************************24 # Table of Contents : # $ grep "^#]" "$d_PROJECTS"'9_My sports & clubs/SERC notes.txt' | sed 's/^#\]/ /' ********************* "$d_PROJECTS"'9_My sports & clubs/SERC notes.txt' 23Feb2021 SERC TALKS: How Can We Model Cyber Attacks and Systems 19Dec2020 cold reboot - links 09Dec2020 SERC TALK: The Practice of Mission Integration 07Dec2020 SERC TALK: The Practice of Mission Integration 29-30Mar2019 SERC Talk: What are the Top Ten Software Security Flaws? 24************************24 08********08 #] 26Feb2022 Register for 06Apr2022 /media/bill/Dell2/PROJECTS/9_My sports & clubs/SERC/220223 SERC: Eric Vugrin - How Can We Model Cyber Attacks and Systems to Characterize Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems APRIL 6 | 1:00 PM EST "Cyber Resilience: a Technical Concept or Vague Desiderata?” Dr. Alexander Kott, Chief Scientist, U.S. Army Research Laboratory; Army Senior Research Scientist (ST) for Cyber Resilience, U.S. Army 08********08 #] 23Feb2022 SERC TALKS: How Can We Model Cyber Attacks and Systems SERC TALKS: How Can We Model Cyber Attacks and Systems to Characterize Resilience of Critical Infrastructure Systems? Dr. Eric Vugrin Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Cyber Resilience Research and Development @Sandia National Laboratories Dr. Eric Vugrin is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Cyber Resilience Research and Development Department at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico. His research spans nearly two decades and focuses on the development of analytical tools and methods for modeling, analyzing, and designing resilience in complex systems. Cyber and space systems are his current primary applications of interest, and he has previously worked on supply chains, public health systems, power systems, transportation networks, and other critical infrastructures. His work has provided support and guidance to research, operations, and policy groups at the US Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Energy, and other agencies. Recognition for his research includes the US Department of Energy Secretary’s Appreciation Award and an R&D 100 Award, recognizing the Canary event-detection software as one of the 100 most technologically significant products of 2010. >> a cool idea : detect external commuications to exteranl servers by malware... >> I forgot about the Colonial Pipeline shutdown only a year or two ago... +-----+ Howell's Questions : Howell - I used to follow advanced control theory based on Neural Networks : [Adaptive, Approximate] Dyamic Programming and concepts extended from linear control theory. [Systems security, power grids, memristor arrays] have long been a major application focus, but the only power application I saw was Siemens for multi-national power grids in Europe. Are your tools using neural networks for combined physical system control and cyber-attack reasons? Howell - Can checks built into a local or general network of PLCs to detect anomalous instructions? 08********08 #] 24Feb2021 11:00 SERC Talk : Digital Transf & C-Suite Please click this URL to join. https://stevens.zoom.us/w/95088579941?tk=RZq7ZcaNsAk5SrCwhhMbRhaD6iT6tk9H2b-c8rVLe3M.DQIAAAAWI7iVZRY3X3g3WE9XTVJUQ3FmLVVjYlI5VE9BAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&uuid=WN_ezzruScnQdGtWGx7PH82RA 08********08 #] 19Dec2020 cold reboot - SERC links https://sercuarc.org/serc-talks/ https://sercuarc.org/event/serc-talks-why-are-ontologies-and-languages-for-software-quality-increasingly-important/ https://sercuarc.org/event/serc-talks-the-dilemmas-of-cybersecurity-why-is-everything-broken/ https://sercuarc.org/event/serc-talks-how-can-we-advance-structural-quality-analysis-with-standards-and-machine-learning/ Move Neural Net vidos to VIDEO USB drive $ mv 08********08 #] 09Dec2020 SERC TALK: The Practice of Mission Integration SERC TALKS: "The Practice of Mission Integration: How to focus and synchronize Department of Defense activities towards critical warfighter missions?" December 9 @ 1:30 pm - 2:30 pm EST Speaker: Mr. Elmer Roman, Director, Mission Integration, OUSD, (R&E) AC / Engineering | CONTACT Abstract This presentation discusses how R&E is addressing the NDAA FY2017 Sec 855 Mission Integration Management (MIM). This will include an overview of Mission Engineering (ME), the technical component of MIM, and current engineering efforts in support of the Joint Staff and modernization priorities. /media/bill/SWAPPER/My_Clubs/SERC systems engng/Roman 09Dec2020 Practice of Mission Integration.pdf Mission Engineering Guide - released yesterday Think of the missions first, then the platforms. All domain effects. https://sercuarc.org/research-reviews/2020-serc-research-review/2020-serc-annual-event-resources/ https://sercuarc.org/research-reviews/2020-serc-research-review/ Mission Engineering Guide (November 2020) - https://ac.cto.mil/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/MEG-v40_20201130_shm.pdf https://afacpo.com/AQDocs/AoAHandbook.pdf Howell's Questions : 1. Apparently more and more "Computational Intelligence" systems, especially "Deep Learning Neural Networks", are beating even the best human diagnostic experts in limited, yet complicated, domains. Over the years there have also been reports of the use of more conventional computer-based training systems for high level military officers, and of course there are very interesting warfare games that require building complex systems. Do you expect to see these systems gain increasing "Mission Engineering" usage, or do they still have a long ways to go to be [useful, integral] to ME? (This is in contrasdt to CI as a tool within a mission). Are these already starting to evolve into integral "human-machine" hybrid systems, with distributed [decision-making, action initiation]? Does the creative power of "Evolutionary Programming" play a part yet? 2. The "BLESSING of high dimensionality" : At the VERY high level that you deal with, it seems to me that the dimensionality extremely high, and it may be very difficult to pick out [opportunities, threats, toolsets] and to [plan, prioritize]. Normally we speak of the "curse of dimensionality", which leads to computability problems. Recent presentations by Alexander Gorban related to the "Blessing of dimensionality", explicity with respect to the "Explainable AI" challenge. (i.e. for "black boxes" like neural networks, how can the system explain what it is doing, and why? - DARPA program manager Hava Sieglemann has been driving this). Are you [developing, employing] Mission Engineering tools that take advantage of the blessings of dimensionality? +-----+ Howell's email to Elmer Roman To : Elmer Roman. Director Mission Integration OUSD (R&E) AC Engineering. USA Subject: Your 09Dec2020 SERC TALK, and my question of "Blessing of dimensionality" and "Explainable AI" see Thunderbird folder "9_My sports & clubs/SERC - systems engineering/" 08********08 #] 07Dec2020 SERC TALK: The Practice of Mission Integration SERC TALKS: "The Practice of Mission Integration: How to focus and synchronize Department of Defense activities towards critical warfighter missions?" Description Speaker: Mr. Elmer L. Roman, Director, Mission Integration, Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, Advanced Capabilities Abstract: This presentation discusses how R&E is addressing the NDAA FY2017 Sec 855 Mission Integration Management (MIM). This will include an overview of Mission Engineering (ME), the technical component of MIM, and current engineering efforts in support of the Joint Staff and modernization priorities. Time Dec 9, 2020 01:30 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada) Add to calendar Webinar ID 940 5881 8419 To Join the Webinar Join from a PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone or Android device: Please click this URL to join. https://stevens.zoom.us/w/94058818419?tk=q188SEeusIPWnim_mik3qRxP9W0dueBlOYvH7cTYF_k.DQIAAAAV5lercxY5RTJzS3VUMVJHV0dEdU54aExBSkRnAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA&uuid=WN_DvCsYRDfTRaeN6s4owWokw 08********08 #] 29-30Mar2019 SERC Talk: What are the Top Ten Software Security Flaws? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26gXAX6pqYM SERC Talks: "What are the Top Ten Software Security Flaws?" Presented on October 4, 2017 at 10AM PT / 1PM ET by Dr. Gary McGraw, Vice President Security Technology, Synopsys >> Awesome talk - I violate all principles! www.synopsis.com/silverbullet McGraws video blog (monthly) # enddoc