Abstract

This project is carrying out a series of activities intended to explore and catalyze the creation of a National Malware Collaboratory The National Malware Collaboratory brings together two synergistic innovations? a national-scale distributed cyberinfrastructure and a catalytic academic/industry/government consortium? to provide order-of-magnitude improvement to the nation? s defenses against cyber-malware. The Collaboratory recognizes the changing nature of the malware threat: from yesterday? s simple worms and viruses to polymorphic, evolvable, broad-spectrum attacks. It recognizes the expanding target of the malware threat, from yesterday? s web servers to today? s critical financial networks, SCADA systems, and national security infrastructure. It responds to these challenges by creating an environment and structure for academia, industry, and government to engage in large-scale, proactive …

Date

2007

Authors

John Wroclawski, Terry V Benzel

Journal

NSF Award

Volume

7

Issue

751027

Pages

51027