[TOS] DETERlab - cyber-DEfense Technology Experimental Research laboratory Testbed laboratory

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A resource for anyone who is working on understanding computer
security, including complete classes of students, or who would like to
test a scenario or appliance:
http://www.isi.edu/deter/

The DETERlab testbed is a general-purpose experimental infrastructure
that supports research and development on next-generation cyber
security technologies. The testbed allows repeatable medium-scale
Internet emulation experiments for a broad range of network security
projects, including experiments with malicious code.

The DETERlab testbed uses the Emulab cluster testbed software
developed by the University of Utah. This software controls a pool of
PC experimental nodes that can be assigned, interconnected with
high-speed links in nearly-arbitrary topologies, loaded, and monitored
remotely, to meet the requirements of each experiment. Experimenters
use the DETERlab web interface to define, load, control, and monitor
their experiments remotely.

DETERlab is composed of two linked clusters: one at USC ISI and the
other at UC Berkeley, with a total of about 400 experimental nodes.

Funding for DETERlab has been provided by the US Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
DETERlab supports a collaborative community of academic, government,
and industrial researchers, allowing them to safely run reproducible
experiments on system and network attacks and countermeasures. The
underlying purpose of DETERlab is to advance the science and art of
computer security. In addition to building, operating, and maintaining
the experimental infrastruct, the DETERlab project also performs R&D
on security testbed design.