Enabling Application Security in Tactical Clouds
Abstract
Statement of Work: Design and Develop a time-based sensor and the framework for data collection and control. The timing channel sensor provides the ability to detect and classify the characteristics of the virtualization environment. The coordination framework will provide the facilities to allow sensor information and control to be exchange. The Sensor Data Analytics task will focus on the design, development and test of the algorithms required for data processing at the sensor level for change detection and classification of the environment. A limited set of experiments will be conducted to provide preliminary quantitative results with a focus on false positive and false negative rates and performance impact. Objective: Develop a timing channel sensor and framework to detect if a cyber-adversary is operating within the Naval Tactical Cloud (NTC). Provide secure communications capability to share timing channel information across multiple applications and provide visualization of malware detections and appropriate control mechanisms. Approach: Perform capability design and participate in NTC RI agile development and experimentation process to incrementally develop and evaluate capabilities in representative shipboard environments. Overall Merit and ONR Mission/Relevance: This research provides critical sensor and analytics capability to detect the presence of advanced cyber actor within a virtualized NTC environment.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Aug 12, 2016
- Source ID
- N000141512292
Entities
People
- Marco Carvalho
Organizations
- Florida Institute of Technology
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy