A short paper on the 2012 Status of Reliability Eduction.
Reliability is an engineering discipline that encompasses a broad array of tools and techniques useful for answering durability and robustness type questions. Product development teams often rely on reliability engineering professionals to guide, advise and manage reliability programs. Reliability is a facet in nearly every function of an organization. This implies the knowledge and skills required for the reliability engineer is comprehensive and the knowledge breadth may have to span aspects of material science in design constraint considerations to warranty reverse logistics.
How do engineers become reliability professionals? What are the knowledge transfer options available to the reliability profession? How do we get started and maintain our knowledge? In this short paper, I summarize what’s available, a couple of common paths taken to become a reliability professional, and highlight the strengths and a few weaknesses concerning reliability education. Note: This is my view of the state of reliability education.
Reliability is a engineering discipline that encompasses a broad array of tools and techniques useful for answering durability and robustness type questions. Product development teams often rely on reliability engineering professionals to guide, advise and manage reliability programs. Reliability is facet in nearly every function of an organization. This implies the knowledge and skills required for the reliability engineer is comprehensive. The knowledge breadth may span aspects of material science to design constraints to warranty reverse logistics.
How do engineers become reliability professionals? What are the knowledge transfer options available to the reliability profession. How do we get started and maintain our knowledge? In this short paper, I plan on summarizing what’s available, a couple of common paths taken to become a reliability professional, and highlight the strengths and a few weaknesses concerning reliability education. This is my view of the state of reliability education.
A Afrobras é uma organização não governamental, fundada em 1997, que reúne
intelectuais, autoridades, personalidades, negras ou não, e tem por finalidade
trabalhar pela inserção socioeconômica, cultural e educacional dos jovens negros
brasileiros. Em âmbito nacional, realiza atividades de informação, formação,
capacitação, qualificação e ações afirmativas para inserção e visibilidade do negro
brasileiro.
A organização utiliza eventos sociais de âmbito acadêmico para difundir conceitos
de inclusão social e distintos assuntos relacionados ao preconceito. Através de
palestras, onde são destacados os valores envolvidos na "causa" da ONG e
importância da inclusão e contribuição histórica do negro na sociedade de maneira
geral e completa: social, econômica, cultural, etc.
Este trabalho é uma exploração da comunicação inclusiva, história e
desenvolvimento do mercado de pequenas empresas. Este projeto inclui estratégias,
custos, planejamento organizacional e tudo que é necessário para iniciar um
negócio.
Este trabalho é uma exploração da comunicação inclusiva, história e
desenvolvimento do mercado de pequenas empresas. Este projeto inclui estratégias,
custos, planejamento organizacional e tudo que é necessário para iniciar um
negócio.
Este trabalho é uma exploração da comunicação inclusiva, história e desenvolvimento do mercado de pequenas empresas. Este projeto inclui estratégias, custos, planejamento organizacional e tudo que é necessário para iniciar um negócio.
How to Win the Stock Market Game
http://mystockmarketbasics.com/win-stock-market-game
Winning the stock market game is a matter of knowing which game you’re playing.
Reliability is a engineering discipline that encompasses a broad array of tools and techniques useful for answering durability and robustness type questions. Product development teams often rely on reliability engineering professionals to guide, advise and manage reliability programs. Reliability is facet in nearly every function of an organization. This implies the knowledge and skills required for the reliability engineer is comprehensive. The knowledge breadth may span aspects of material science to design constraints to warranty reverse logistics.
How do engineers become reliability professionals? What are the knowledge transfer options available to the reliability profession. How do we get started and maintain our knowledge? In this short paper, I plan on summarizing what’s available, a couple of common paths taken to become a reliability professional, and highlight the strengths and a few weaknesses concerning reliability education. This is my view of the state of reliability education.
A Afrobras é uma organização não governamental, fundada em 1997, que reúne
intelectuais, autoridades, personalidades, negras ou não, e tem por finalidade
trabalhar pela inserção socioeconômica, cultural e educacional dos jovens negros
brasileiros. Em âmbito nacional, realiza atividades de informação, formação,
capacitação, qualificação e ações afirmativas para inserção e visibilidade do negro
brasileiro.
A organização utiliza eventos sociais de âmbito acadêmico para difundir conceitos
de inclusão social e distintos assuntos relacionados ao preconceito. Através de
palestras, onde são destacados os valores envolvidos na "causa" da ONG e
importância da inclusão e contribuição histórica do negro na sociedade de maneira
geral e completa: social, econômica, cultural, etc.
Este trabalho é uma exploração da comunicação inclusiva, história e
desenvolvimento do mercado de pequenas empresas. Este projeto inclui estratégias,
custos, planejamento organizacional e tudo que é necessário para iniciar um
negócio.
Este trabalho é uma exploração da comunicação inclusiva, história e
desenvolvimento do mercado de pequenas empresas. Este projeto inclui estratégias,
custos, planejamento organizacional e tudo que é necessário para iniciar um
negócio.
Este trabalho é uma exploração da comunicação inclusiva, história e desenvolvimento do mercado de pequenas empresas. Este projeto inclui estratégias, custos, planejamento organizacional e tudo que é necessário para iniciar um negócio.
How to Win the Stock Market Game
http://mystockmarketbasics.com/win-stock-market-game
Winning the stock market game is a matter of knowing which game you’re playing.
How to use Storytelling to tell your Start-up storyAdela VILLANUEVA
Whatever you are pitching to a VC, Angel Investor or simply sharing your Idea, the way it is told is crucial. I have seen a lot of ideas been killed just because they were not articulated in the right way.
Storytelling is a technique used in brand advertising that helps brand to tell their own story in an engaging and sticking way. In this guide, you will have some 'whys', 'whats' and 'hows' create your own story for your start up.
The Common Inspection Framework: Nursery World Show 2016Ofsted
Jo Caswell HMI and Penny Fisher HMI spoke at the Nursery World Show 2016 on 5 February. Their seminar is designed to help nurseries: become familiar with the Common Inspection Framework; prepare for inspection; build on findings from Ofsted’s survey work; and understand how to present your best evidence.
Accelerated life testing (ALT) is widely used to expedite failures of a product in a short time period for predicting the product’s reliability under normal operating conditions. The resulting ALT data are often characterized by a probability distribution, such as Weibull, Lognormal, Gamma distribution, along with a life-stress relationship. However, if the selected failure time distribution is not adequate in describing the ALT data, the resulting reliability prediction would be misleading. In this talk, we provide a generic method for modeling ALT data which will assist engineers in dealing with a variety of failure time distributions. The method uses Erlang-Coxian (EC) distributions, which belong to a particular subset of phase-type (PH) distributions, to approximate the underlying failure time distributions arbitrarily closely. To estimate the parameters of such an EC-based ALT model, two statistical inference approaches are proposed. First, a mathematical programming approach is formulated to simultaneously match the moments of the EC-based ALT model to the ALT data collected at all test stress levels. This approach resolves the feasibility issue of the method of moments. In addition, the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach is proposed to handle ALT data with type-I censoring. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the capability of the generic method in modeling ALT data.
Introduction to Reliability and Maintenance Management - PaperAccendo Reliability
Paper for the tutorial presented at the 2014 RAMS conference.
A basic introduction to reliability and maintenance management with a focus on basic tools, approaches and creating value.
We outline a basic structure to move your organization to a proactive program.
One of best features about working in reliability engineering is everything fails, eventually. This fact provides a bit of career stability.
Another aspect I enjoy is the concepts and approaches that create the foundation for reliability engineering knowledge do not change very much over time. The basics of reliability engineering are the same as when the earliest engineers began design structures and products.
Understand Reliability Engineering, Scope, Use case, Methods, TrainingBryan Len
Reliability engineering performs good deals with the permanence and usefulness of parts, products and systems.
Reliability engineering is very much helpful for reliability engineers, as well as design engineers, quality engineers, or system and software engineers.
Tonex offers 17 different courses in the Reliability Engineering arena. These classes are mainly taught by some of the best instructors in the world — specialists in their areas with real world experience.
Understand Reliability Engineering, Scope,Use case, methods, training.
https://www.tonex.com/systems-engineering-training/reliability-engineering-training/
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Information Security Strategy Development
Assignment: Part 2
Date for Submission: Please refer to the timetable on ilearn
(The submission portal on ilearn will close at 14.00 UK time on the date
of submission)
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Assignment Brief
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit an
Information Security Strategy Development assignment. Please refer to your Student
Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on
preparing and submitting assignments.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
1) Evaluate the basic external and internal threats to electronic assets and
countermeasures to thwart such threats by utilising relevant standards and best
practice guidelines.
2) Analyse the legalities of computer forensics phases and the impact of the legal
requirements on the overall information security policy.
3) Critically assess the boundaries between the different service models (SaaS, PaaS,
IaaS) and operational translations (i.e. cloud computing) and to identify the associated
risks.
4) Critically investigate a company information security strategy to provide consultation
and coaching through reporting and communication.
5) Assess, compare and judge computer media for evidentiary purposes and/or root
cause analysis.
6) Apply relevant standards, best practices and legal requirements for information security
to develop information security policies.
7) Lifelong Learning: Manage employability, utilising the skills of personal development
and planning in different contexts to contribute to society and the workplace.
Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module
name, the word count; the appendices if relevant; and a reference list in Arden University
(AU) Harvard format. You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed
below. Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out below in assessing
your work.
Maximum word count: 2,500 words
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Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by
the same percentage that the word count is exceeded.
You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates
anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the
student. However, please do not forget to include your STU number.
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Assignment Task: Part 2
This assignment is worth 50% of the total marks for the module.
1) A Denial of Service attack (DoS) represents one of the most widespread types of
cyber-threats to businesses of all sizes. DoS prevents users of an online IT system
from accessing v ...
The Challenges Of, And Advantages In, Establishing A Consistent Architectural...Tim Eyres
Describes the challenges and benefits of having a consistent enterprise architecture framework within a global pharma research organization with examples from different industries.
How to use Storytelling to tell your Start-up storyAdela VILLANUEVA
Whatever you are pitching to a VC, Angel Investor or simply sharing your Idea, the way it is told is crucial. I have seen a lot of ideas been killed just because they were not articulated in the right way.
Storytelling is a technique used in brand advertising that helps brand to tell their own story in an engaging and sticking way. In this guide, you will have some 'whys', 'whats' and 'hows' create your own story for your start up.
The Common Inspection Framework: Nursery World Show 2016Ofsted
Jo Caswell HMI and Penny Fisher HMI spoke at the Nursery World Show 2016 on 5 February. Their seminar is designed to help nurseries: become familiar with the Common Inspection Framework; prepare for inspection; build on findings from Ofsted’s survey work; and understand how to present your best evidence.
Accelerated life testing (ALT) is widely used to expedite failures of a product in a short time period for predicting the product’s reliability under normal operating conditions. The resulting ALT data are often characterized by a probability distribution, such as Weibull, Lognormal, Gamma distribution, along with a life-stress relationship. However, if the selected failure time distribution is not adequate in describing the ALT data, the resulting reliability prediction would be misleading. In this talk, we provide a generic method for modeling ALT data which will assist engineers in dealing with a variety of failure time distributions. The method uses Erlang-Coxian (EC) distributions, which belong to a particular subset of phase-type (PH) distributions, to approximate the underlying failure time distributions arbitrarily closely. To estimate the parameters of such an EC-based ALT model, two statistical inference approaches are proposed. First, a mathematical programming approach is formulated to simultaneously match the moments of the EC-based ALT model to the ALT data collected at all test stress levels. This approach resolves the feasibility issue of the method of moments. In addition, the maximum likelihood estimation (MLE) approach is proposed to handle ALT data with type-I censoring. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the capability of the generic method in modeling ALT data.
Introduction to Reliability and Maintenance Management - PaperAccendo Reliability
Paper for the tutorial presented at the 2014 RAMS conference.
A basic introduction to reliability and maintenance management with a focus on basic tools, approaches and creating value.
We outline a basic structure to move your organization to a proactive program.
One of best features about working in reliability engineering is everything fails, eventually. This fact provides a bit of career stability.
Another aspect I enjoy is the concepts and approaches that create the foundation for reliability engineering knowledge do not change very much over time. The basics of reliability engineering are the same as when the earliest engineers began design structures and products.
Understand Reliability Engineering, Scope, Use case, Methods, TrainingBryan Len
Reliability engineering performs good deals with the permanence and usefulness of parts, products and systems.
Reliability engineering is very much helpful for reliability engineers, as well as design engineers, quality engineers, or system and software engineers.
Tonex offers 17 different courses in the Reliability Engineering arena. These classes are mainly taught by some of the best instructors in the world — specialists in their areas with real world experience.
Understand Reliability Engineering, Scope,Use case, methods, training.
https://www.tonex.com/systems-engineering-training/reliability-engineering-training/
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Information Security Strategy Development
Assignment: Part 2
Date for Submission: Please refer to the timetable on ilearn
(The submission portal on ilearn will close at 14.00 UK time on the date
of submission)
Page 2 of 6
[1514]
Assignment Brief
As part of the formal assessment for the programme you are required to submit an
Information Security Strategy Development assignment. Please refer to your Student
Handbook for full details of the programme assessment scheme and general information on
preparing and submitting assignments.
Learning Outcomes:
After completing the module, you should be able to:
1) Evaluate the basic external and internal threats to electronic assets and
countermeasures to thwart such threats by utilising relevant standards and best
practice guidelines.
2) Analyse the legalities of computer forensics phases and the impact of the legal
requirements on the overall information security policy.
3) Critically assess the boundaries between the different service models (SaaS, PaaS,
IaaS) and operational translations (i.e. cloud computing) and to identify the associated
risks.
4) Critically investigate a company information security strategy to provide consultation
and coaching through reporting and communication.
5) Assess, compare and judge computer media for evidentiary purposes and/or root
cause analysis.
6) Apply relevant standards, best practices and legal requirements for information security
to develop information security policies.
7) Lifelong Learning: Manage employability, utilising the skills of personal development
and planning in different contexts to contribute to society and the workplace.
Your assignment should include: a title page containing your student number, the module
name, the word count; the appendices if relevant; and a reference list in Arden University
(AU) Harvard format. You should address all the elements of the assignment task listed
below. Please note that tutors will use the assessment criteria set out below in assessing
your work.
Maximum word count: 2,500 words
Page 3 of 6
[1514]
Please note that exceeding the word count by over 10% will result in a reduction in grade by
the same percentage that the word count is exceeded.
You must not include your name in your submission because Arden University operates
anonymous marking, which means that markers should not be aware of the identity of the
student. However, please do not forget to include your STU number.
Page 4 of 6
[1514]
Assignment Task: Part 2
This assignment is worth 50% of the total marks for the module.
1) A Denial of Service attack (DoS) represents one of the most widespread types of
cyber-threats to businesses of all sizes. DoS prevents users of an online IT system
from accessing v ...
The Challenges Of, And Advantages In, Establishing A Consistent Architectural...Tim Eyres
Describes the challenges and benefits of having a consistent enterprise architecture framework within a global pharma research organization with examples from different industries.
Career Certifications In Computer Networkingswregn
Computer networking and network security are among the most sought after fields for emerging technologies. With giga bit band widths and tera bit storage spaces, it has become very important to organize the bandwidth and storage spaces for quick and ready access by remote users, particularly over the Internet. The article provides a review of career certifications available in computer networking.
Secured cloud support for global softwareijseajournal
This paper presents core problem solution to security of Global Software Development Requirement
Information. Currently the major issue deals with hacking of sensitive client information which may lead to
major financial as well as social loss. To avoid this system provides cloud security by encryption of data as
well as deployment of tool over the cloud will provide significant security to whole global content
management system. The core findings are presented in terms of how hacker hacks such systems and what
counter steps need to follow. Our algorithmic development provide random information storage at various
cloud nodes to secure our client requirement data files.
Upskill Yourself With GSDC Site Reliability Engineering Certificationgsdcouncil1
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) has become a critical skill in the world of IT, as it helps organizations ensure that their systems are reliable, scalable, and efficient. If you're looking to upskill yourself in SRE, obtaining a Site Reliability Engineering Certification from a respected certification body such as GSDC (Global Skill Development Council) can be a valuable investment in your career.
This is a special report by IEEE - Power System relaying Committee's Working Group I12 outlining industry practices of Quality Assurance for protection and control design drawing packages. Throughout the electric utility industry, the drive to maximize quality assurance practices has gained increased prominence. These practices mitigate common errors frequently encountered in engineering design packages, specific to
Protection and Control (P&C) design. This report will illustrate industry practices to be applied in a Quality Assurance
Program for protection and control design drawing packages; from conception to final “as-built.” It is the reader’s responsibility to incorporate these practices into their organization’s Quality Assurance Program.
RCM is a process used to identify what Preventive Maintenance or Condition Based Maintenance you need to implement so you get the Reliability you need from your equipment.
Doing Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM) helps us take care of our equipment. And, taking care of our equipment is very much like taking care of ourselves.
An overview of the basic process to create an ALT using one of 6 different approaches. Slides used for presentation to the ASQ Silicon Valley evening meeting on Nov 15th 2017.
We work on projects to improve reliability. There may not be the field data immediately available. Let’s explore what you can do to improve the overall program while delivering on your project. Specifically, what’s with cost and procurement?
Detailed Information: As a reliability professional we often work with a team focused on improving the reliability of single product or system. We work with the resources and capabilities of the organization. For me a reliability project is one product or line, a program is the entire organization and lifecycle. We bring specific tools and knowledge, yet rely on the overall reliability culture of an organization to be successful
The overall reliability program may or may not have the field data, root cause analysis and other element of information that allow us to effectively solve problems for a specific project. In some cases we have to work to improve the overall program while striving to create a reliable product. Let’s explore what you should do when you are building a reliability model for a new project and would like to use previous reliability history.
If the data is not available what do you do? What are your options? Let’s discuss what happens when the procurement team consistently selects the least expensive and least reliable components. What are your options? You can and should change the way entire departments do business, for the good of the project and the organization. Let’s discuss the scope of your role as a reliability engineer.
This Accendo Reliability webinar originally broadcast on 19 May 2015.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
Alt. GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using ...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
Securing your Kubernetes cluster_ a step-by-step guide to success !KatiaHIMEUR1
Today, after several years of existence, an extremely active community and an ultra-dynamic ecosystem, Kubernetes has established itself as the de facto standard in container orchestration. Thanks to a wide range of managed services, it has never been so easy to set up a ready-to-use Kubernetes cluster.
However, this ease of use means that the subject of security in Kubernetes is often left for later, or even neglected. This exposes companies to significant risks.
In this talk, I'll show you step-by-step how to secure your Kubernetes cluster for greater peace of mind and reliability.
A tale of scale & speed: How the US Navy is enabling software delivery from l...sonjaschweigert1
Rapid and secure feature delivery is a goal across every application team and every branch of the DoD. The Navy’s DevSecOps platform, Party Barge, has achieved:
- Reduction in onboarding time from 5 weeks to 1 day
- Improved developer experience and productivity through actionable findings and reduction of false positives
- Maintenance of superior security standards and inherent policy enforcement with Authorization to Operate (ATO)
Development teams can ship efficiently and ensure applications are cyber ready for Navy Authorizing Officials (AOs). In this webinar, Sigma Defense and Anchore will give attendees a look behind the scenes and demo secure pipeline automation and security artifacts that speed up application ATO and time to production.
We will cover:
- How to remove silos in DevSecOps
- How to build efficient development pipeline roles and component templates
- How to deliver security artifacts that matter for ATO’s (SBOMs, vulnerability reports, and policy evidence)
- How to streamline operations with automated policy checks on container images
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
PHP Frameworks: I want to break free (IPC Berlin 2024)Ralf Eggert
In this presentation, we examine the challenges and limitations of relying too heavily on PHP frameworks in web development. We discuss the history of PHP and its frameworks to understand how this dependence has evolved. The focus will be on providing concrete tips and strategies to reduce reliance on these frameworks, based on real-world examples and practical considerations. The goal is to equip developers with the skills and knowledge to create more flexible and future-proof web applications. We'll explore the importance of maintaining autonomy in a rapidly changing tech landscape and how to make informed decisions in PHP development.
This talk is aimed at encouraging a more independent approach to using PHP frameworks, moving towards a more flexible and future-proof approach to PHP development.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
1. Status of Reliability Education
Fred Schenkelberg
FMS Reliability, 15466 Los Gatos Blvd #109-371, Los Gatos, CA USA
E-mail: fms@fmsreliability.com
Abstract 2. University programs
Reliability is an engineering discipline that encompasses There are elements of reliability engineering in many
a broad array of tools and techniques useful for answering engineering undergraduate programs, yet there are no
durability and robustness type questions. Product degrees at the under-graduate level that I know of, in
development teams often rely on reliability engineering reliability engineering. Also, many electrical, mechanical,
professionals to guide, advise and manage reliability civil, or software engineering programs may briefly discuss
programs. Reliability is a facet in nearly every function of or mention reliability as part of the program of study;
an organization. This implies the knowledge and skills however, one can imagine that many students have shied
required for the reliability engineer is comprehensive and away from a reliability engineering focus after having taken
the knowledge breadth may have to span aspects of material the initial required probability and statistics class.
science in design constraint considerations to warranty An education in reliability engineering may include
reverse logistics. classes in materials science, design engineering, process
How do engineers become reliability professionals? engineering, maintenance engineering, finance and
What are the knowledge transfer options available to the accounting, and a dash of marketing and sales, to name just
reliability profession? How do we get started and maintain a few. An advanced degree is a great start for a career in
our knowledge? In this short paper, I summarize what’s reliability engineering and, when combined with work
available, a couple of common paths taken to become a experience in another engineering discipline, makes for a
reliability professional, and highlight the strengths and a few very strong resume.
weaknesses concerning reliability education. Note: This is The University of Maryland’s reliability program, under
my view of the state of reliability education. the aegis of the Center for Advanced Life Cycle Engineering
(CALCE), continues to offer advanced degrees in reliability
Keywords
engineering.
Place, reliability, education, reliability engineer
The University of Tennessee’s Maintenance and
1. Introduction Reliability Center has partnered with Monash University,
Reliability engineering is a broad endeavor. Reliability Australia’s largest university and an accredited member of
engineers typically work to either determine how long a Australia’s “Big Eight” (UT/Monash University) to offer a
product will last, or determine how the product will fail. Master’s Degree in Maintenance & Reliability Engineering
Both of these questions require the reliability engineer have as well as graduate certificates in Reliability Engineering
sufficient knowledge from design, statistics, procurement, and Maintenance Management.
manufacturing, plus marketing, field service and Other programs of note include those at Rutgers
management. Reliability engineers work across the product University, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Vanderbilt
lifecycle and across the entire organization. University, University of Arkansas and Arizona State.
Learning how to become an effective reliability engineer Additionally, the University of Arizona offers a few courses
has many options. This short paper does not intend to fully with reliability content. Internationally, one can find
catalogue all available education opportunities, rather to advanced degree programs, for example from the Indian
highlight the available formats and venues. And, there is a Institute of Technology. Most of these programs have a
plethora of options available for one interested in learning particular focus, systems or quality engineering,
about reliability. maintenance or risk management. See the Higher Education
As a profession reliability professionals publish and page at www.reliabilitycalendar.org for a short list of
share knowledge. There are technical journals, conferences advanced degree programs and contacts. [1]
and books that capture knowledge in a way we can readily
3. Journals
reference. There are seminars, local meetings, discussion
Technometrics, the IEEE Transaction on Reliability and
groups, forums, and webinars that permit us to listen to
Quality Engineering (QE) come to mind immediately for me
lectures and to discuss alternative views and options. On the
and many of you may recognize them as well. QE has
job training and mentoring play a significant role, also.
recently agreed to publish reliability papers regularly and
There are formal education options, too. Universities and
has included a small team of reliability professionals on the
colleges offer seminars, workshops, courses and full degree
editorial board. Whereas the first two journals tend to
programs related to reliability engineering.
publish technical papers that focus more on the academic
This paper will discuss and provide examples of a variety end of the scale, QE expects to publish reliability application
of options available today. Then discuss briefly what is articles.
missing and a few ideas looking toward the future.
2. There are many other journals. Titles like Reliability and others as a service to the reliability community or as a
Engineering & System Safety by Elsevier or Journal of part of their business strategy.
Machinery Manufacture and Reliability by Springer suggest When asked, I tend to recommend three conferences.
a reliability focus for the journal’s articles. It is safe to say Keeping in mind that many working professionals may only
there is a robust peer reviewed technical journal community. attend one conference a year, getting the most for your time
Journals are also published by professional societies, is important. Unless your needs are very specific, for
consultancies and businesses. Some of these journals rival example testing color fastness of polymers, you may find
the peer-reviewed technical journals mentioned above, and these three conferences useful to attend on an ongoing basis.
they tend to focus on the sponsoring organization’s focus. The Annual Reliability and Maintainability Symposium,
For example, the RiAC Journal is published by the in its 57th year in 2011, is a multi-track 3.5 days conference
Reliability Information Analysis Center. Another example is complete with technical papers, tutorials and vendor trade
the Journal of Reliability, Maintainability, and show. [2] The conference regularly attracts 400 or more
Supportability in Systems Engineering published by the participants, making it a great place for networking. The
RMS Partnership. Both of these journals tend to focus on paper presentations are typically 20 to 30 minutes, making it
military applications. possible to learn about a wide range of topics from many
Businesses related to reliability engineering have a few speakers. The tutorials are typically two hours long and
journals type publications available. For example, permit time to cover a lot of material. Nine professional
ReliaSoft’s Reliability Edge Newsletter and DfR Solution’s societies sponsor this conference and it is held at various
Newsletter both provide technical information and education locations in the US, once a year – IF you can only attend one
and are free to join the subscription list. conference a year, go to RAMS.
Trade journals also publish reliability articles. These tend The International Applied Reliability Symposium (ARS)
to be more introductory than the scholarly or technical is a three-day multi-track conference with hour-long
journals, yet tend to have a wider audience outside the presentations. [3] The longer format provides time for an in-
reliability profession. The article “Inverter Risk Factors: depth treatment of the topic. The speakers are generally
What to Consider Beyond MTBF Numbers” is in a recent experienced reliability professionals and tend to provide
issue of the Solar Industry trade journal. Circuits Assembly applied or tutorial type presentations. The ARS is hosted
provided me with many introductory printed circuit annually in the US, Brazil, Singapore, Amsterdam and
assembly reliability articles over the years. Bangalore. Locations vary year to year yet continue to have
Whether you want to be published or simple keep up a presence around the world.
with the reliability profession, journals provide a vibrant, The Workshop on Accelerated Stress Testing &
timely and broad spectrum of views across our industry. Reliability (ASTR) focuses on accelerated testing from
Most of the technical articles are written for an audience that Highly Accelerated Life Testing to accelerated degradation
is well versed in the discipline discussed. And the trade testing, including the equipment, techniques and
journal and newsletters tend to be more introductory and for measurement equipment necessary for successful testing. [4]
a broad range of readership. This is a three-day single track conference and tends to
include very practical topics.
4. Conferences
Capacitor and Resister Technology Symposium, now
Over the past 20 years I’ve explored many reliability
known simply as CARTS [5]; International Reliability
conferences. At times, via the www.reliabilitycalendar.org
site, I’ve attempted to maintain a calendar of all reliability Physics Symposium (IRPS) [6].
conferences and building and maintaining the site and the International Symposium for Testing and Failure
www.reliabilitycalendar.org over the past year has been Analysis (ITSFA) [7], would be the next three on my list of
educational in itself. The vast majority of conferences are recommendations. They focus on passive electronic
very focused on a particular industry or discipline and, as components, microelectronics, and failure analysis
you may already know, conferences are typically scheduled respectively. Of course, depending on your interests, the
in the spring or fall and tend not to be located at tropical industry you work in or support, and budget you may find
resorts. one or more of these options suitable for participation.
It is possible to find at least one conference every week, Conference attendance has been down for the past few
somewhere, in the world. A few years ago two conferences years mostly due to the recession. There are signs that
on prognostics with respect to product reliability started: attendance will rebound this year, as a reflection of the need
IEEE’s International Conference on Prognostics and Health for professionals to continue to learn, network and discuss
Management and Annual Conference of the Prognostics and reliability topics.
Health Management Society. The solar industry has recently 5. Books
seen a significant rise in the number of conferences To get an idea of how many books are available on the
available. topic of reliability engineering, I searched Google Books for
Most professional societies related to reliability have at reliability engineering. Two things to note from this search -
least one annual conference. Some businesses are also Google returned 615,000 results and the two books I use and
offering conferences, some have a trade journal affiliation recommend most often were on the first page.
Schenkelberg, Status of Reliability Education
3. Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management 9. Online discussion groups and forums
[8], and Practical Reliability Engineering, [9] are texts that Since the start of the Internet, there have been
address most of the aspects of reliability engineering. Each newsgroups, discussion boards, email lists and forums
discusses the basic approaches to guide professionals across available for the reliability professional to stay in touch with
the product life cycle, contain brief discussions on a broad other professionals. The format is great for the occasional
range of tools and techniques and you will find both on the question, permitting possibly hundreds of professionals to
bookshelves of many reliability professionals. address. Often a reasonable response or two is available
The options for books include general-purpose books, within a day or two. Discussion boards such as the IEEE
plus many very narrowly focused texts on specific tools or Reliability Society Yahoo Group [11] or the ASQ Reliability
industries, or both. For example there are books on Failure Division Linkedin group [12] are open to any interested
Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) in a general nature, party. These forums have also attracted regular job postings
plus texts on FMEA in the automotive industry or medical as the audience is primarily working professionals.
industry. The options for reliability statistics also have a Discussions, announcements, and job postings create a fairly
very broad range, from introductory treatments for any light traffic format, yet permit the individual to tap the
engineer, to highly specialized, narrow branches of the art. collective information of the subscribers.
Like the overall book market, e-books are becoming Webinars - The combination of a teleconference with the
increasingly available, albeit at a slow pace. In a few web enabled broadcast of the slides with annotations permits
years it may be possible to carry a complete library of a disperse audience to hear a speaker and see their slides.
professional textbooks along on your favorite e-reader. Tools offered by Webex, GotoMeeting and other others
permit seminars to occur via your computer and phone.
6. Seminars Some organizations charge a fee for high quality
Small, local and personal meetings to learn about a topic webinars by noted presenters. Costs typically range from
seem to be thriving. Face to face meetings are increasingly $50 to $200 an hour. Hobbs Engineering and Paton Press are
being supplemented with a growing calendar of two examples. Other organizations offer free webinars either
teleconferences and webinars. A broad range of consultants, as a service to their customers or their members. The ASQ
vendors, laboratories, consortiums, and professional Reliability Division is offering monthly webinars in English
societies provide reliability training via seminars. These can and Mandarin, plus short courses for free. [10] These
range from an hour local meeting to discuss a particular webinars provide a means to receive similar content as
topic to a full week long structured instructor led course. attending a conference or local seminar or meeting, without
A group of volunteers attempt to maintain a Google the travel. Some are also recorded and available online on
calendar with all reliability conferences, seminars, courses, demand.
meetings, etc. [10] The service has the capability for The pricing, content and presentation styles are all in
individuals to subscribe to the calendar or search by city, flux and many groups are experimenting with this relatively
region, or dates. new format to provide training. The mix of free or paid,
7. Courses advertising or training, introductory or advance, and
Face to face instructor led classes typically range from a formats, durations, etc. are all being explored and adapted to
half day to a week in duration. For example, MET Labs find what works. We should expect to see this area continue
offers short seminars on standards based testing methods. A to evolve and grow.
few organizations, such as Technology Training, Inc. (TTI), 10. Newsletters
offer courses on a broad range of reliability topics. And There seem to be two types of newsletters independent of
others offer courses related to using their primary the source. One provides news of events, products activities
product(s), e.g., Relex or Minitab classes on how to use their and announcements. These newsletters help the professional
software. keep current on what is happening based on the view of the
Courses provided by non-academic institutions are, with newsletter editors. The second type provides content that is
more frequency, offering certifications. These are based educational in some manner. These newsletters provide
typically on the successful completion of a series of courses. tutorials, problem solution approaches, guides, or technical
Examples are certification programs offered by ReliaSoft articles. Of course many newsletters combine the two types
and TTI. Not all seminars or courses offer professional of content. As far as I know, all newsletters are either free or
engineers CEU’s, although many could. a benefit of membership.
8. Local meetings/discussion groups/forums Ops A La Carte, RiAC, ReliaSoft, Relex, and many
In areas where there is a sufficiency of active volunteers, others offer free newsletters. Nearly all professional
local meetings are regularly organized and offered. Most are organizations offer a newsletter, often electronically, for
on a monthly basis and have invited speakers that cover their members. RMSP, for example, publishes an
topics of interest locally. Houston meetings may focus on informative newsletter with short technical articles
the oil industry, Wichita on private jets, San Jose on high quarterly. The RMSP newsletter is a benefit of membership.
tech. This is a traditional means to network, learn and Two notable newsletters with great technical content
contribute to the greater discussion concerning the reliability have ceased. It’s been a few years since I’ve received the
profession. IEEE, ASQ, and SRE are all active in this area. Society of Reliability Engineers’ newsletter. And, the ASQ
Schenkelberg, Status of Reliability Education
4. Reliability Division’s Reliability Review has just published a Hybrid approach. A mix of formal courses, a selection of
their last issue. Both found it increasingly difficult to find seminars and conferences, plus self study and experience. If
suitable technical articles to publish. one is lucky a mentor is discovered and cultivated.
Blogs on reliability are available by a few writers, yet it All three approaches produce excellent reliability
is not a prevalent practice. Ricky Smith’s Maintenance and professionals along with the full spectrum of performance
Reliability blog [13] or The Reliable Plant Blog [14] being abilities. Those that continue to take advantage of learning
examples. A Google search for ‘reliability blog’ finds an opportunities tend to continue to advance their career.
assorted array of blogs with reliability in the title of the
particular discussion with only a few blogs devoted to
13. What is missing?
From my own experience, I learn from product failures
reliability topics exclusively.
and an understanding of the root cause involved. Henry
11. Mentors Petroski has written about design engineers that avoid
Having a mentor or two during your career provides an design failures by a routine of studying failures. I highly
accelerated means to gain experience and guidance. Without recommend both To Engineer is Human and Design
a mentor you may learn the ‘hard way’, meaning you may Paradigms, found at Amazon or many other bookstores.
make your share of mistakes. A mentor provides a sounding [15]
board, reality check, insightful guidance and possibly A few years ago, the local IEEE Reliability Society
friendship. Some companies provide mentorship as part of chapter meeting was the day prior to Halloween and the
the culture. For example an opening for a Reliability discussion topic was ‘Reliability Horror Stories’. The intent
Engineering Group Leader job listing recently included the was to share the best failures in story form with each other.
role of ‘mentors the development...’ We are too often thwarted from discussing failures.
In discussions with other reliability professionals, Product failure discussion may reduce product sales or lead
learning from a mentor is often cited as a major element of to liability claims. Management or design failures leading to
their professional development. Courses, seminars and reliability issues may lead to politically charged discussions
conferences provide the tools, and the mentor provided and reorganizations. While attempting to focus on the data
wisdom in the selection and application of those tools. and the root cause, reliability failures still invoke a need to
assign blame. Furthermore, discussing failures tends to
12. Where do Reliability Engineers come from?
dwell on the negative aspects of the process. Yes, it provides
Other engineering fields provide the majority of
a much richer learning atmosphere, yet unless done in a
reliability professionals. Degrees in physics, math, statistics,
electrical or mechanical engineering and many others are “safe environment” may be career limiting.
common across our profession. In my case, and common Likewise, a discussion on very robust and reliable
with a few other reliability engineers that I know, when I product achievements is rare. A few products have been
asked how they became reliability engineers, it was by notable and marketed accordingly; the HP calculator is one
happenstance. The engineering problems that were available example. Very few products are able to maintain a
and interesting to me were of a reliability nature. Finding the significant edge in the market on the basis of being more
projects both interesting and rewarding, I sought additional reliable. Individual products are even more difficult to
projects in the reliability area. While working as a design for identify. The evidence is often the lack of higher than
manufacturing engineer, I found that field reliability expected field returns.
improvement often coincided with yield improvements for In general, what is missing is the ability of our profession
assembly. And, I found the cost savings by reducing field to talk openly about reliability performance, good or bad.
failures made a compelling argument for process We certainly can learn from failures, and we can emulate the
improvement investments rather than simply yield successful achievements, if possible to learn about both.
improvements. Failure data and information, not MTBF, is often
This path to become a reliability professional requires missing. For a particular design, what is most likely to fail
the willingness to continue to learn, the ability to learn and how? What is the failure mechanism and associated
quickly and the desire to contribute in the solving of difficult stresses that will limit the useful life? Vendors will gladly
cross discipline design problems. list the performance specifications and are often very
A few university programs offer degrees in reliability reluctant (ignorance, embarrassment, perception) to
engineering. These programs provide a solid grounding in articulate expected failure specifics. Vendors gladly list
the wide array of tools and techniques in the reliability testing that only has no-failures, leaving the recipient to
profession. The students are a mix of working professionals wonder if the test and associated stress was valid to the most
and students continuing from undergraduate work. Like the likely failure mechanisms.
above career development path, a formal education also Value or ROI guidance is generally missing within our
requires the desire to learn. The one complaint I’ve heard training, textbooks and discussions. What is the value of a
and experienced concerning this path is the over-reliance on well run Design FMEA session? In a culture of tight
advanced tools to address issues. What is missing is the timelines and budgets the time to conduct a Design FMEA is
ability to select the appropriate tools and analysis to readily estimated, yet the value received is difficult to
economically solve an issue - ‘Not everything is a thesis’ - predict. The same applies to many of the reliability tools in
(Anon by choice). A few reliability professionals have taken common use. A general set of guidelines or algorithms is
Schenkelberg, Status of Reliability Education
5. missing to permit the valuation of a specific tool in a and Judgment in Engineering, Cambridge University
specific application. Press, Cambridge, 1994
14. Summary
The reliability profession is rich in learning
opportunities. Books, websites, journals, conferences, etc.
all provide a mix of introductory and advanced materials. As
all fields of engineering and design continue to invent new
materials and novel assemblies, the reliability professional
will have to continue to learn how to best apply the
appropriate tools and techniques to solve problems.
Despite the barriers to freely sharing failure information,
we do readily share approaches, algorithms, techniques and
tools. We share our experience and our wisdom as we enrich
our professional community.
In general our education permits us to address two
questions of value: What will fail, and when will it fail? It is
in the details of providing answers that we provide value.
Our profession’s rich education opportunities permit us to
effectively and efficiently answer these two questions on an
ongoing basis.
9. References
[1]
http://reliabilitycalendar.org/The_Reliability_Calen
dar/Higher_Education/Higher_Education.html, date
viewed, January 12, 2012.
[2] http://rams.org, date viewed, January 12, 2012.
[3] http://www.ARSymposium.org, date viewed, January
12, 2012.
[4] http://www.ieee-astr.org/, date viewed, January 12,
2012.
[5] http://www.ecaus.org/conference/index.cfm, date
viewed, January 12, 2012.
[6] http://www.irps.org/, date viewed January 12, 2012.
[7] http://www.asminternational.org/content/Events/istfa/,
date viewed January 12, 2012.
[8] Ireson, W.G., Coombs, C. F., and Moss, R. Y.,
Handbook of Reliability Engineering and
Management, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, New York,
1996.
[9] O’Connor, P., Kleyner, A., Practical Reliability, 5th
Edition, Wiley, New York, 2012.
[10] http://reliabilitycalendar.org, date viewed, January 12,
2012.
[11]
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/ieeereliabilitys
ociety/, date viewed, January 12, 2012.
[12]
http://www.linkedin.com/groups?about=&gid=187
5217, date viewed, January 12, 2012.
[13] http://www.ogj.com/blogs/maintenance-
reliability.html, date viewed, January 12, 2012.
[14] http://blogs.reliableplant.com/, date viewed, January
12, 2012.
[15] Petroski, H., To Engineer Is Human: The Role of
Failure in Successful Design, Vintage, New York,
1992, and Design Paradigms: Case Histories of Error
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