SaTC-CCRI: Collaborative Research: Sharing Expertise and Artifacts for Reuse through Cybersecurity CommunityHub (SEARCCH)

网络安全研究实验经常以临时方式进行，严重阻碍了科学进步。大多数研究人员使用方法和基础设施的组合来进行实验，使用一次性的、艰苦的、容易出错的过程，这些过程从未共享以进行重用和验证。缺乏可重复、可再现和可重用的过程和其他工件限制了构建他人工作或比较解决方案的能力。使社区能够共享和重用实验工件对于改变网络安全研究的进行方式至关重要。search创建了一个协作的、社区驱动的平台，通过帮助研究人员打包、导入、定位、理解和重用实验工件，降低了共享的障碍。由平台组织的工件，包括工具、方法、文档和数据，可以部署到社区测试平台上，以执行新的实验。与此同时，search还开展外展活动，围绕中心建立一个活跃、多样化的在线社区，以便直接分享专业知识、众包研究理念和实验设计。通过不断学习和改进的过程，该中心将随着时间的推移而发展，包括涵盖广泛网络安全研究主题的工件集合，并为新确定的社区需求提供支持。这些活动将共同改变网络安全社区开展网络安全研究的方式，通过验证、可重复共享和重用以及以研究成果为基础的集体方法，提高网络安全研究的整体科学质量。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Cybersecurity research experiments are frequently performed in ad hoc ways, which severely retards scientific progress. Most researchers use a combination of methods and infrastructure to conduct experiments using one-off, painstaking, and error-prone processes that are never shared for reuse and validation. The lack of repeatable, reproducible, and reusable processes and other artifacts limits one's ability to build upon the work of others or to compare solutions. Enabling the community to share and reuse experiment artifacts is crucial to transforming the way cybersecurity research is conducted. SEARCCH creates a collaborative, community-driven platform that lowers the barrier to sharing by aiding researchers in packaging, importing, locating, understanding, and reusing experiment artifacts. The artifacts organized by the platform, including tools, methodologies, documentation, and data, can be deployed to community testbeds for performing new experiments. Concurrently, SEARCCH engages in outreach activities to build an active, diverse, online community around the hub to enable direct sharing of expertise and crowdsourcing research ideas and experiment design. Through a process of continuous learning and improvement, the hub will grow over time to include collections of artifacts covering a broad range of cybersecurity research topics and add support for newly identified community needs. These activities together will transform the way cybersecurity research is conducted in the cybersecurity community, improving the overall scientific quality of cybersecurity research through validation, repeatable sharing and reuse, and a collective approach to building on research results.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.