Services


Engineering Safe and Dependable Systems
System/Technology Development Corporation (S/TDC) software products and services have focused on assuring high levels of system performance, safety and dependability in advanced computing, communications and control systems since 1981. Our engineering tasks have supported major system life cycle processes, including Systems Engineering, Design and Implementation, Integration and Test and Operations and Maintenance.



Enterprise Vulnerability Management (EVM)
The integrated management of Enterprise defenses against the probable security, safety and dependability stresses that they will have to withstand during operational use. In general, Enterprises need means for understanding the evolving spectrum of security, safety and dependability stresses; for assessing the vulnerabilities of the internal and external services that they will be using to support their mission critical applications; and for mitigating identified vulnerabilities to achieve required levels of end-to-end system Quality of Service (QoS). The design of effective Continuity of Operations (COOP) solutions is integrally linked to exploiting the synergies in these domains.



Measuring & Managing the Quality of NetCentric "On Demand" Services
As Enterprises increase their dependence on external NetCentric services, they will need to require that both external and internal services supporting mission critical Enterprise activities provide means for measuring and managing the Quality of Service (QoS) that it is currently providing. Enterprises will then be able to dynamically control the end-to end QoS being provided to each of their mission critical activities, by measuring and managing the QoS of each supporting service link.



24 X 7 Automated Stress-injection based System Effectiveness Testing (ASSET)
Interactions among the components of a complex system can result in flaws that are not detected by the analysis and testing of individual components. S/TDC pioneered stress-injection based testing has long been the system validation standard in determining the dependability of such critical systems. In modern day systems, hardware faults (register bit error, hardware component failure, etc), software faults (buffer overflow, erroneous logic, etc) and cyber attacks result in errors. When the system does not incorporate adequate error detection and response mechanisms, these errors manifest themselves as failures and can cause the loss or degradation of system level services. The stress-injection based testing process uncovers detection and recovery mechanisms deficiencies and guides trade offs between alternative compensating design enhancements by providing quantitative evaluations of their relative effectiveness.