Building a network testbed for internet security research

  • Authors:
  • Chris Heien;Rick Massengale;Ningning Wu

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock;University of Arkansas at Little Rock;University of Arkansas at Little Rock

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Historical research of intrusion, anomaly, or rogue software detection, and network protection techniques to prevent Denial of Service, or other malicious software attacks, have involved antiquated singularly scoped techniques. Malicious software attacks, whether in the form of worms, spyware, malware, or computer viruses, have economically and productively impacted the state of information exchange throughout the interconnected world. The ability to proactively identify the threats or unauthorized activity that contradicts day-today activities, will allow initiation of defenses before a full threat infestation occurs. This paper describes a test networked system that has been built for our research projects involving Internet worm detection. The goal of the system is to simulate a global network containing heterogeneous systems; in turn, we may study the behaviors of various worms and to design effective strategies for predicting, detecting, and quarantining outbreaks.