Cyber Security Work at OMG - Task Force Levels

Every wonder about the source of a seemingly legitimate post on Facebook or even in a mainstream media publication? How about the source of the food you're eating? If E.coli is found is produce from a particular farm, how do we know what products to take off the shelf? How do we know that the electronic records from a business have been maintained appropriately? If they've been changed, who could have done it? To answer these types of questions, we need to understand how each "artifact" was created and then handled and by whom. Understanding the source and and/or process by which a piece of data was created is the lineage or "pedigree" of the data element. Understanding who has possession or custody of a data element in addition to who "owns" or has responsibility for it is the "provenance" The OMG Provenance and Pedigree Working Group has been developing a set of standards for tracking and exchanging information related to the provenance and pedigree of artifacts, whether they be data or physical objects. This presentation was recorded in Ottawa, Canada.

This presentation, recorded at the OMG meeting in Ottawa, will outline the key concepts and components for automating the data tagging and labeling process and the OMG C4I Task Force efforts to address these issues in an open and non-proprietary manner. In addition, we will discuss the Information Exchange Framework (IEF) - an OMG initiative to establish a family of specifications for responsible information sharing using email, file share, instant message, chat, etc.

In a globalized world in which we need to share information across entities, while at the same time respecting confidentiality constraints and a complex web of laws and regulations, governments as well as commercial enterprises face a growing need to manage the processes, roles and responsibilities related to the handling of sensitive data. This webinar will explore the many initiatives OMG has underway to help meet this challenge.

This presentation will introduce the core concepts, differentiation and business value of the "triple crown" of business process modeling (BPM) standards developed by OMG in recent years - the Business Process Model and Notation™ (BPMN™), the Case Management Model and Notation™ (CMMN™), and the Decision Model and Notation™ (DMN™). This session will demonstrate methods and best practices, specific roles and users, and usage in the context of government business innovation and transformation.

Data Residency consists of issues and approaches related to the location of data and metadata, and how to minimize the risk of adverse consequences due to the many laws and regulations that constrain where various types of information (financial, private, sovereign, etc.) can be stored. The OMG Data Residency Working Group published two important discussion papers in 2017: a study of Data Residency Challenges and Opportunities for Standardization, and a Data Residency Maturity Model. OMG's intent is to develop standards to describe laws and regulations on one hand, and the sensitive nature of a dataset on the other hand, allowing tools to expose the issues on might face when moving that data from one location to another. Recorded September 27 in Ottawa, Canada.

About this webinar:

Trends in retail unfold at a dizzying pace and the impact for retailers on their business structure and value proposition to shoppers is profound. Retail winners - those who outperform the market year after year - don't just sell more stuff, they have different priorities and it's worth examining them and their approach to technology to understand how retailers can be successful in a changing world.

Listen in on a moderated conversation with Retail Systems Research Analyst Brian Kilcourse as successful retailers discuss their priorities for the next 12-18 months and the technology to support it.

Speakers:

Brian Kilcourse is a recognized thought leader in the United States on how businesses innovate to deliver differentiating and sustainable value through the power of information. Brian is a managing partner at Retail Systems Research LLC, a company focused on helping companies develop winning strategies with its industry-leading research focused on the extended retail industry.

Susan Reda is Editor of STORES Media, the official publishing division of the National Retail Federation. She is responsible for developing all content for the magazine and additional STORES properties. With a passion for all things related to retail, Reda researches and writes multiple stories per issue, exploring the big-picture ideas, issues and innovations bubbling up in the industry.

The OMG Space Domain Task Force is publishing industry-driven specifications to reduce the software costs of developing, deploying, and maintaining space systems. Increasing interoperability not only reduces the costs through competitive industry offerings, but increases the resiliency of space systems that are relied on for critical health, safety and defense applications. This presentation (recorded live in Ottawa, Canada on Sept. 27, 2018) will cover:
* Why industry-driven space standards?
* XTCE - a lingua franca for satellite operators
* GEMS, interoperable ground equipment
* C2MS, enabling the space enterprise
* CSRM, a SysML Template for capturing architecture and requirements of a satellite mission

To update our UML® modeler certification program to OCUP 2™ (OMG Certified UML Professional 2™), the three original OCUP examinations were completely revised. Because the new exams focus on language usage as they test candidates familiarity with UML specification detail, candidates must study modeling in order to properly prepare to take these exams. At this webinar, you will learn about these changes to the program, why they are important, and what you can do to improve your chances of passing the OCUP 2 exams and achieving certification at the Foundation, Intermediate, and Advanced levels. To get started on your OCUP 2 certification, visit the OCUP 2 website (https://www.omg.org/ocup-2/) and make sure to attend this webinar led by Dr. Jon Siegel, director of the OCUP certification program.

Healthcare today has serious issues with accuracy, safety, cost, patient satisfaction, and provider satisfaction. True semantic interoperability provided by standards based services has the potential to dramatically improve all of these aspects of healthcare. The improvement will be made possible not only by advances in standards and technology, but will also need to be driven and guided by expert front line clinicians. This session will describe the essential steps we must take to realize an optimal future healthcare system.

Clinical practice guidelines are systematically developed statements based upon prevailing evidence to assist health practitioner’s in their decisioning making concerning the appropriate care to be provided for a specific clinical circumstance. A guideline is meant to offer concise instructions on how to provide healthcare services. The most important benefits of clinical practice guidelines are their potential to improve both the quality care and patient outcomes, and reduce costs. However, these guidelines are developped and communicated in prose, which often lacks the required specificity to clearly and unambiguously convey the clinical knowledge. These ambiguities can lead to the misapplication of intended therapy, causing at best a reduction in the quality of care and reduce costs, at worst causing harm.

This presentation will demonstrate the use of three OMG standards, Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN), Case Management Model and Notation (CMMN) & Decision Model and Notation (DMN) to represent clinical guidelines. These methods in tandem provide a means to clearly and unambiguously describe and convey the clinical knowledge. The models can be reviewed, tested and computational verified. Further, since there are clear computation semantics for the standards, the models developed based upon these standards are potentially executable. This promotes the rapid dissemination and uptake of the guidelines in a clinical setting.

The speakers will provide a brief overview of the three methods, supporting HL7 standards and supporting technologies necessary to make the guideline actionable in a clinical setting. A simple clinical model based upon the standards will be reviewed and finally shown executing. The presentation will show the potential of using these methods to model clinical knowledge and their potential of being directly executable.

Introducing the OMG’s Data Residency Maturity Model

With the rise of managed IT services and cloud computing, sensitive data is regularly moved across countries and jurisdictions, which can be in direct conflict with various international, national or local regulations dictating where certain types of data can be stored (e.g., the European Union’ General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR). Data residency is also a consideration of data owners responsible for protecting and securing data from unintended access.

The Object Management Group® (OMG®), a technology standards consortium, launched a working group in 2015 to address the challenges of data residency and define a standards roadmap to help stakeholders manage the location of their data and metadata.

Given the complexity of the issue, a stepwise improvement plan is necessary. This webinar will introduce a new Data Residency Maturity Model (DRMM) proposed in December 2017. Similar to the Capability Maturity Model (CMM) invented in 1990 at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the DRMM contains five maturity levels aimed at helping an organization improve their practices and governance of data residency. The OMG seeks feedback on the DRMM and calls on all interested parties to contribute to this work.

SDRs provide wireless communication components whose trans¬mit and receive characteristics are realized through specialized software running on programmable platforms. The benefit of allowing a single communications platform to be rapidly reconfigured for multiple, highly-diverse communication is to multiplex receive and transmission signals of different encodings on many frequencies (each combination is called a “waveform”). SDRs handle waveforms programmatically are used in fundamentally new ways for multiple domains (e.g. C4ISR, Internet of Things, Robotics, Space, etc.). Sup¬porting several waveforms inside the same device eases bug fixing, enables field re-configurability, allows mul¬tiple data transmission standards to be supported simultaneously, and helps improve the security and integrity of communications. Any communication task can be realized instanta¬neously by uploading/downloading appropriate software that defines the necessary waveforms allowing rapid reconfiguration and upgrades of Over-The-Air Reprogrammable deployed equipment and use of Smart Antennas.

This webinar’s purpose is to provide background and solicit interest for a revised version of the OMG Software-Based Communications Domain Task Force (SBC/DTF), called the Secure Network Communications (SNC) for Software Defined Radios (SDR) Working Group (WG).

For information on OMG SBC visit http://www.omg.org/intro/SCAV.pdf.

DDS Technical Overview Series - Part IV: The OMG Data Distribution Service provides a diverse set of Quality of Service policies. Strategic use of these QoS policies enables intelligent behavior in middleware and allows the application developer to focus on the domain. In this webinar, we examine one application in detail and explore how it uses DDS QoS policies to address several non-functional requirements. We'll also cover the trade-offs involved in different design choices involving DDS QoS and other DDS features. This webinar builds on the Part I and Part II webinars by examining certain QoS policies in more depth and taking a deep dive into a single application as it evolves from simple data transfer to taking full advantage of the Data-Centric Publish/Subscribe model of DDS.

Introduced in 2004, the Data Distribution Service has developed into a mature and proven connectivity standard within the IIoT. Today, DDS is at the heart of a large number of mission- and business-critical systems such as, Air Traffic Control and Management, Train Control Systems, Energy Production Systems, Medical Devices, Autonomous Vehicles, and Smart Cities. Considering the technological trends towards data-centricity and the rate of adoption, tomorrow DDS will be at the heart of an incredible number of Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems.

To help you become an expert in DDS and expand your skills in the growing DDS market, Object Management Group offers this DDS technical oveview webinar series covering three key areas: (1) the essence of DDS and data-centric systems, (2) how to effectively exploit DDS Quality of Service to build applications that perform and scale, and (3) securing your distributed DDS system.

This webinar, Part III of the OMG DDS Webinar series, will take an in-depth look at the latest advances in the DDS standards to meet the demanding cyber-security requirements of today’s industrial connected systems. From authentication and access control to integrity and encryption, learn how to leverage DDS Security features to secure your connected system against cyber attacks, while maintaining a flexible, scalable architecture. Presented by Nina Tucker, Vice President of Twin Oaks Computing.

Part I of the OMG DDS Webinar Series: Introduction to DDS and Key Abstractions presented by Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., of ADLink Technologies and co-chair of OMG's DDS Special Interest Group, is available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252365

Part II of the OMG DDS Webinar series: Applying DDS QoS to Solve Real-World Problems, presented by Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Ph.D., CTO of RTI and Co-Chair of OMG's DDS Special Interest Group, is available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252387

SysML v1 was adopted in 2006, and has been a key enabler of model-based systems engineering (MBSE). Since that time, much has been learned about applying MBSE with SysML. This presentation describes the directions and approach for the next generation of SysML (v2) to provide capabilities that address the limitations of SysML v1, and enable the evolving practice of MBSE.

Introduced in 2004, the Data Distribution Service has developed into a mature and proven connectivity standard within the IIoT. Today, DDS is at the heart of a large number of mission- and business-critical systems such as Air Traffic Control and Management, Train Control Systems, Energy Production Systems, Medical Devices, Autonomous Vehicles, and Smart Cities. Considering the technological trends towards data-centricity and the rate of adoption, tomorrow DDS will be at the heart of an incredible number of Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems.

To help you become an expert in DDS and expand your skills in the growing DDS market, Object Management Group offers this DDS technical overview webinar series covering three key areas: (1) the essence of DDS and data-centric systems, (2) how to effectively exploit DDS Quality of Service to build applications that perform and scale, and (3) securing your distributed DDS system.

This webinar, Part II of the OMG DDS Webinar series, will cover in detail the mechanisms available in DDS to meet challenging real-world application requirements; from discovery to state management, information consistency, data durability, reliability and scalable information distribution. With over 20 different quality-of-service (Qos) policies DDS provides ready-made configurable patterns that can be used to meet most of these use-cases. Learn to leverage DDS Qos and patterns to simplify your application code and increase the robustness of your system. Presented by Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, Ph.D., CTO of RTI and Co-Chair of OMG's DDS Special Interest Group.

Part I: Introduction to DDS and Key Abstractions presented by Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., of ADLink Technology and co-chair of OMG's DDS Special Interest Group, is available here https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252365

Part III: Using DDS to Secure Data Communications presented by Nina Tucker, Vice President of Twin Oaks Computing here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252391

Filmed during OMG's TC meeting in Reston, DC in 2017, this conversation explores the role of standards in Healthcare IT

With the emergence of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) many are trying to understand how their organization can step up to the new world of connected things that can cause harm, lead to safety issues, and could serve for decades. Join this session as we explore the driving concepts behind creating a safe, secure, and reliable IIoT system and look at how OMG standards play their role in the new IIoT marketplace and IIoT ecosystems as we evolve our IT & OT cultures into the IIoT culture. Topics discussed include:
* Safe, Reliable, and Secure - how to tell?
* Sourcing and integrating trustworthy components
* Standards and evidence-based value chains in IIoT ecosystems

Introduced in 2004, the Data Distribution Service has developed into a mature and proven connectivity standard within the IIoT. Today, DDS is at the heart of a large number of mission- and business-critical systems such as, Air Traffic Control and Management, Train Control Systems, Energy Production Systems, Medical Devices, Autonomous Vehicles, and Smart Cities. Considering the technological trends towards data-centricity and the rate of adoption, tomorrow, DDS will be at the heart of an incredible number of Industrial IoT (IIoT) systems.

To help you become an expert in DDS and expand your skills in the growing DDS market, Object Management Group is offering this DDS Technical Overview webinar series covering three key areas: (1) the essence of DDS and data-centric systems, (2) how to effectively exploit DDS Quality of Service to build applications that perform and scale, and (3) securing your distributed DDS system.

Part I of the OMG DDS Webinar Series will get you started with DDS. We will (1) cover in great details DDS’ key abstractions, (2) introduce the essence of DDS-based data-centric and modular architectures, and (3) clearly position DDS with respect to messaging technologies. After attending this webcast you will know the fundamentals required to start using DDS in your next project. Presented by Angelo Corsaro, Ph.D., CTO at ADLINK Technology and Co-Chair of the OMG's DDS Special Interest Group.

Part II: DDS QoS to Solve Real World Problems presented by Gerardo Pardo-Castellote, CTO of RTI and Co-Chair of OMG's DDS Special Interest Group is available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252387

Part III: Using DDS to Secure Data Communications presented by Nina Tucker, Vice President, Twin Oaks Computing is available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/252391

Part IV: Designing a Distributed Application using DDS QoS available here: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/12231/281491