Software Engineering Institute

PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 10, 2025—The Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI) today announced the opening of registration and a call for presentations for Secure Software by Design. The two-day, on-site event will feature panel discussions and presentations on August 19 and 20 at the Cooperative Plaza Conference Center in Arlington, Virginia.

The SEI has been in the forefront of secure software development, promoting a shift-left approach whereby security weaknesses are addressed, prevented, or eliminated earlier in the software development cycle, saving time and money. Building on this approach, the third annual Secure Software by Design event seeks to promote deliberate, intentional engineering processes that integrate security into the entire software lifecycle, rather than addressing security in individual stages as one-off activities. The lifecycle approach is especially important for software deployed in national security contexts, and it speeds delivery of more secure software to warfighters and other end users.

The purpose of the Secure Software by Design event is to improve the state of this holistic secure development approach. The SEI will bring together thought leaders from industry, academia, and government for presentations and discussions on all aspects of secure software systems development.

The event organizers invite submissions for presentations on application threat modeling, development of security requirements, secure software architectures, continuous deployment of capability and DevSecOps, secure development platforms and pipelines, software assurance, secure coding practices, software testing, and more. The deadline for submissions is July 18.

For more information about registration and the call for presentations, visit the event website at https://resources.sei.cmu.edu/news-events/events/secure-software-by-design/index.cfm.

Thank you to our collaborator, CMU CyLab Security and Privacy Institute.