A Hybrid Computing Testbed for Mobile Threat Detection and Enhanced Research and Education in Information
Abstract
This project aims to build a hybrid computing testbed for detecting emerging mobile threats and improving research and education in information security at North Carolina State University (NCSU). The proposed computing testbed catalyzes the scalable, efficient deployment of the current Virtual Computing Lab (VCL)environment to provide a prototyping environment, which will be used for rapid development and evaluation of a variety of ongoing research projects funded by DoD and other government agencies. Also, the testbed supports research-related education components in system oriented information security courses at NCSU. Furthermore, we leverage the hybrid testbed (with the additions of various mobile devices) to detect and experiment with emerging mobile threats (e.g., Android malware). One key use of this hybrid testbed is to detect emerging or new threats against current mobile gadgets (e.g., smart phones and tablets), which is not available or possible yet, based on current computing resources. The results and experience gained from operating and managing a real computing testbed will also provide practical insights into emerging threats on mobile Internet for students and researchers. The experience in managing and operating such a hybrid computing testbed will also be valuable to identify new security and performance problems and develop their practical solutions.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 20, 2014
- Accession Number
- AD1051383
Entities
People
- Xuxian Jiang
Organizations
- North Carolina State University