SDI-CSCS: Collaborative Research: S2OS: Enabling Infrastructure-Wide Programmable Security with SDI

传统上，我们的许多关键系统都是将安全作为反应性附加组件来开发的，而不是默认的设计。因此，现有的安全机制往往是支离破碎的，难以配置或验证，这使得防御各种网络攻击变得困难。该项目将使用软件定义的基础设施(SDI)构建企业/云/数据中心安全管理的“圣杯”：从流程到存储再到网络的不同资源的安全和管理的统一框架。云计算现在是我们国家网络基础设施的重要组成部分；拟议的工作将降低云的总拥有成本-进一步释放经济和环境效益-并提高当今云的安全性。该项目提出S2OS(SDI定义的安全操作系统)，它在主机操作系统(OS)和网络级别抽象安全能力和原语，并为监控和动态保护应用程序提供易于使用和可编程的安全模型。这个项目将探索将软件透明地组合成一个统一企业的新技术，即使各个部分从未明确设计为互操作，类似于传统操作系统管理上层用户应用程序的各种硬件资源。此外，该项目将为利用全球信息作出有效的地方安全管理决策提供新的途径。最后，该项目在编程动态、主机网络协调和智能安全应用方面实现了新的创新，以保护整个基础设施。该项目将为如何安全地构建和管理企业、数据中心和云计算做出重大贡献。该项目的个人投资促进机构将参与教育和外展活动，以培训下一代人才。特别是，私人投资促进机构计划将跨学科的研究理念融入到涉及网络、系统和安全的课程中。该项目还将积极鼓励代表性不足的群体参与，并将技术转让给行业合作伙伴。

Traditionally, many of our critical systems have been developed with security as a reactive add-on, rather than a by default design. As a result, existing security mechanisms are often fragmented, hard to configure or verify, which makes it difficult to defend against various cyber attacks. This project will build the "holy grail" for enterprise/cloud/data-center security management with software-defined infrastructure (SDI): a unified framework for security and management of disparate resources, ranging from processes to storage to networking. Cloud computing is now an essential part of our national cyberinfrastructure; the proposed work will lower the total cost of ownership for clouds - further unlocking economic and environmental benefits - as well as improving the security of today's clouds.This project proposes S2OS (SDI-defined Security Operating System), which abstracts security capabilities and primitives at both the host Operating System (OS) and network levels and offers an easy-to-use and programmable security model for monitoring and dynamically securing applications. This project will explore new techniques to transparently compose software into a unified enterprise, even if the individual pieces were never explicitly designed to inter-operate, similar in a way a traditional operating system managing various hardware resources for upper-layer user applications. Further, this project will contribute new ways to leverage global information for making effective local security management decisions. Finally, this project enables new innovations in programming dynamic, host-network coordinated, and intelligent security applications to protect the entire infrastructure.This project will make significant contributions to how enterprise, data centers and cloud computing are securely built and managed. The project's PIs will engage in educational and outreach activities to train the next generation talent. In particular, the PIs plan to integrate the interdisciplinary research ideas into courses spanning networking, systems and security. The project will also actively encourage participation from underrepresented groups and transfer technology to industry partners.