DETER Laboratory
The goal of the DETER laboratory effort is to create, maintain, and support a collaborative and vendor-neutral experimental environment for cyber-security research. It is intended to provide a center for interchange and collaboration among security researchers and testbed builders. The DETER effort includes:
- DETER Testbed: a shared testbed infrastructure that is specifically designed for medium-scale (e.g., 100 node) repeatable experiments, and especially for experiments that may involve "risky" code.
- DETER Research Community: a community of academic, industry, and government researchers working toward better defenses against malicious attacks on our networking infrastructure, especially critical infrastructure.
The nucleus of the DETER laboratory effort is formed of two research projects, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Advanced Research Projects Agency (HSARPA):
- DETER -- Cyber Defense Technology Experimental Research project
The DETER project designs, builds, and operates the DETER testbed, to provide experimental infrastructure and tools for security research. The principal partners in DETER are UC Berkeley and USC's Information Sciences Institute (USC-ISI). - EMIST -- Evaluation Methods for Internet Security Technology
EMIST is developing scientifically rigorous testing frameworks and methodologies for representative classes of network attacks and defense mechanisms. It currently includes research efforts in DDoS defense, worm propagation, and BGP routing attacks.
Partners in the EMIST effort include Penn State, McAfee Research, ICSI, Purdue, SPARTA Inc., SRI International, and UC Davis. EMIST members form the initial members of the DETER research community.
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