Development of a General Purpose Enterprise-scale Distributed IT System Tests Bed

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This project seeks NSERC CRD funding to extend the capabilities of an industry initiated research project. Specifically, Enquisite Software Inc. of Victoria B.C. is seeking an enterprise-scale distributed IT systems test bed in which to explore capacity and performance breakpoints of provisional designs for the re-engineering of their current distributed data warehousing and data mining application. NSERC CRD funds will be used to leverage this industry project into the development of a more widely applicable general purpose distributed IT systems test bed. The requisite computer and network equipment required to build such a test bed already exists within the auspices of the University of Victoria's Information Security and Privacy Research (InSPiRe) lab, as this $500k+ base of equipment was acquired under a previous CFI New Opportunities/BC KDF/IBM Canada Inc. (in-kind) grant to develop the first-of-it-kind enterprise-scale cyber-security test bed in Canada. As developing an enterprise-scale distributed IT systems test bed is on the direct path to developing the end-goal cyber-security test bed, this slight repositioning of the InSPiRe equipment allows: (a) the overall research program to mover forward in a timelier manner, and (b) the better servicing of industry and academic collaborative research needs. As the InSPiRe test bed is intended to provide test bed research support for two in-progress trans-Canadian cyber-security research programs (i.e, the NSERC Strategic Network proposal: The Internetworked Systems Security Network (ISSNet) and the submitted MITACS full proposal: Gondwana: Towards Quantitative Security Metrics), both of being in their respective second stage submission/review processes, it is imperative that available lead time be used to bring InSPiRe's into operation. Combined these trans-Canadian cyber-security research programs will  involve 20 researchers across 10 institution spanning coast-to-coast.