Abstract

Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future (CEF): Catalyzing a New Generation of Experimental Cybersecurity Research Page 1 Cybersecurity Experimentation of the Future (CEF): Catalyzing a New Generation of Experimental Cybersecurity Research David Balenson and Laura Tinnel, SRI International Terry Benzel, USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) August 11, 2017 Funded by NSF under Grants No. #ACI-1346277 and #ACI-1346285 Page 2 Research Infrastructure for Cybersecurity Research • Cybersecurity R&D is still a relatively young field • It involves intrinsically hard challenges – Inherent focus on worst case behaviors and rare events – In the context of multi-party and adversarial/competitive scenarios • Research infrastructure is crucial – Allow new hypotheses to be tested, stressed, observed, reformulated, and ultimately proven before making their way into operational systems • Ever increasing cyber …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

David Balenson, Laura Tinnel, Terry Benzel

Journal

SRI International, Tech. Rep.