Dr. Carol Woody is a principal researcher at the Software Engineering Institute.  She leads a team building capabilities for measuring, managing, and sustaining software assurance and cybersecurity for highly complex software intensive systems and supply chains throughout the Acquisition lifecycle.  She has successfully implemented solutions in domains including banking, manufacturing, government, and finance. She coauthored, with Nancy Mead, a book Cyber Security Engineering: A Practical Approach for Systems and Software Assurance published by Pearson Education as part of the SEI Series in Software Engineering.   The CERT Cybersecurity Engineering and Software Assurance Professional Certificate is based on the research she led.