Resumen
This article focuses on the cyber defense technology networking and evaluation. To make rapid advances in defending against attacks, the state of the art in evaluation of network security mechanisms must be improved. Current deficiencies and impediments to evaluating network security mechanisms include lack of scientific rigor, lack of relevant and representative network data, inadequate models of defense mechanisms and inadequate models of the network and both the background and attack traffic data. To develop a testbed framework for evaluating security mechanisms, the project focuses on a select subset of the overall problem space. The framework will include attack scenarios, attack simulators, generators for topology and background traffic, data sets derived from live traffic and tools to monitor and summarize test results. The development of testing methodologies complemented by an experimental infrastructure will support the realistic and consistent evaluation of mechanisms purported to mitigate large-scale attacks.