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

该项目寻求NSERC CRD资助，以扩展行业发起的研究项目的能力。具体来说，Enquisite Software Inc.的维多利亚B.C.公司正在寻求一个企业级的分布式IT系统测试平台，以探索其当前分布式数据仓库和数据挖掘应用程序的重新设计的临时设计的容量和性能断点。NSERC CRD资金将用于利用该行业项目开发更广泛适用的通用分布式IT系统测试平台。建立这样一个测试平台所需的计算机和网络设备已经存在于维多利亚大学的信息安全和隐私研究（InSPiRe）实验室的赞助下，因为这个50万美元以上的设备基地是根据以前的CFI新机会/BC KDF/IBM加拿大公司收购的。（实物）赠款，用于在加拿大开发首个企业级网络安全测试平台。由于开发企业级分布式IT系统测试平台是开发最终目标网络安全测试平台的直接途径，因此InSPiRe设备的这种轻微重新定位允许：（a）以更及时的方式推进整个研究计划，以及（B）更好地服务于行业和学术合作研究需求。由于InSPiRe测试台旨在为两个正在进行的跨加拿大网络安全研究计划提供测试台研究支持，（即NSERC战略网络提案：互联系统安全网络（ISSNet）和提交的MITACS完整提案：冈瓦纳：走向量化安全（Towards Quantitative Security），两者都处于各自的第二阶段提交/审查过程中，必须利用可用的准备时间使InSPiRe投入运行。这些跨加拿大的网络安全研究项目将涉及横跨海岸到海岸的10个机构的20名研究人员。

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.