The Spring ELISA Workshop, which took place on April 5-7 virtually, had more than 130 global registrants that learned more about the various working groups, hot topics related to enabling linux in safety applications and networked with ambassadors. If you missed the workshop, you can check out the materials here or subscribe to the new ELISA Youtube Channel and add these sessions to your watch list.
For the first-time ever, the ELISA Project featured a keynote presentation. Robert (Bob) Martin, Senior Principal Engineer at the MITRE Corporation, presented a keynote titled, “Software Supply Chain Integrity Transparency & Trustworthiness and Related Community Efforts.” Check out the presentation materials here or watch the video:
Trust, transparency, and integrity of software supply chains is at the center of many of the global security and safety challenges confronting communities around the world, including government agencies and the industries that support them or provide our critical infrastructure. The pandemic, utility ransomware attacks, the attack on SolarWinds, and the Ever Given have brought supply chain security, resilience, integrity, transparency, and trustworthiness into sharpened focus to a broader audience, and the many inadequacies have surfaced regarding timely access to reliable suppliers, software, and stocks of fuel, personal protective equipment, micro-electronics, medical devices, and food supplies, to name a few.
At the same time, the computerization of everything gave rise to pervasive cyber threats for more and more of the capabilities and infrastructure we and our organizations rely upon to function – including those stemming from vulnerabilities inherent in repurposed software of often dubious provenance and unknown pedigree. Further complicating this landscape is the increasingly globalized nature of the technology in these systems and lack of transparency. Adversaries large and small seek to inject themselves into every conceivable stage of software technology development, supply, and support, for disruptive, monetary and intelligence goals of their own.
This video will discuss the capabilities emerging across industry and government to assess and address the challenges to providing trustworthy software supplies with assurance of integrity and transparency to their composition, source, and veracity – the building blocks of software supply chains we can gain justifiable confidence in at scale and speed.