A Laboratory for Cyber Situation Awareness Using Heterogeneous Virtual Machine Replication
Abstract
Under ARO funded MURI project entitled Computer-Aided Human Centric Cyber Situation Awareness, we at George Mason University and our research partners are developing an integrated end-to-end (spanning the whole life cycle) cyber situation awareness solution to fill the gap between machine information processing and analysts mental processes. A novel aspect of this project is the virtual machine (VM)-replication based damage assessment, recovery, and service regeneration. With our existing resources, we were able to build a small test range consisting of a server and multiple client machines to demonstrate the feasibility of our approach. However, a larger test range was needed to get statistically significant measures of performance and security for current efforts, as well as to enable future research and development to demonstrate enterprise-wide scalability of our solutions. To this end, we proposed the acquisition and building of a laboratory for large-scale testing. With this DURIP award, we built as a multi-purpose reconfigurable test range via virtualization to support a virtually limitless range of network topologies of clients, servers, and routers found in typical enterprises. The testbed enabled us to realistically assess the efficacy of our research against the type of enterprise systems they are expected to defend.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 05, 2017
- Accession Number
- AD1055691
Entities
People
- Sushil Jajodia
Organizations
- George Mason University