Abstract

Scientific cyberinfrastructures (CIs) contain rich and powerful resources to support a wide range of experiments across the science and engineering research communities. However, CI resources and the experimental data they generate are compelling attack targets for cyber threat actors, who may seek to abuse CIs through activities such as (1) exfiltration or encryption of valuable experiment data;(2) enlistment of compromised resources into botnets, for purposes such as denial of service attacks; or (3) illicit non-scientific activities such as cryptocurrency mining. The DISCERN project (Datasets Illuminating Suspicious Computations on Engineering Research Networks) seeks to improve the cybersecurity posture of CIs by producing datasets that capture both legitimate and illegitimate use of CI resources. DISCERN's primary goal is to produce rich and diverse datasets that capture many realistic legitimate and …

Date

January 1, 1970

Authors

Jelena Mirkovic

Journal

NSF Award Number 2319864. Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering

Volume

23

Issue

2319864

Pages

19864