SYSTEMS ENGINEERING RESOURCES

NIST: Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems

In November 2022, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published its first revision of “Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems”. This publication, NIST SP 800-160v1r1, supersedes the March 2018 release. According to co-author Mark Winstead (per 24 December INCOSE Yammer feed):

Ron Ross, Michael McEvilley, and I revised (including some major rewrites) to drive it to be even more about systems engineering than the original. Early on, we discovered we were on a path very parallel to the security in the Future of Systems Engineering efforts of INCOSE. Gave us some great opportunities to quote some of that work.

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This publication describes a basis for establishing principles, concepts, activities, and tasks for engineering trustworthy secure systems. Such principles, concepts, activities, and tasks can be effectively applied within systems engineering efforts to foster a common mindset to deliver security for any system, regardless of the system’s purpose, type, scope, size, complexity, or the stage of its system life cycle. The intent of this publication is to advance systems engineering in developing trustworthy systems for contested operational environments (generally referred to as systems security engineering) and to serve as a basis for developing educational and training programs, professional certifications, and other assessment criteria.

Changes highlighted in this revision include:

• Provides a renewed focus on the design principles and concepts for engineering trustworthy secure systems, distributing the content across several redesigned initial chapters.

• Relocates the detailed system life cycle processes and security considerations to separate appendices for ease of use.

• Streamlines the design principles for trustworthy secure systems by eliminating two previous design principle categories.

• Includes a new introduction to the system life cycle processes and describes key relationships among those processes.

• Clarifies key systems engineering and systems security engineering terminology.

• Simplifies the structure of the system life cycle processes, activities, tasks, and references.

• Provides additional references to international standards and technical guidance to better support the security aspects of the systems engineering process.

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NAFEMS: Unlocking the Potential of Simulation and Modelling in your Organization

NAFEMS, the International Association for the Engineering Modelling, Analysis and Simulation community, has made available an informative webinar titled “Unlocking the Potential of Simulation and Modelling in your Organization” that was originally delivered in September 2022. Presenter, Andy Richardson, is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Richardson is founder and Director of PHRONESIM, providing Engineering Simulation Strategy Solutions and helping businesses maximize the effectiveness, efficiency and robustness of their modelling and simulation capabilities.

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