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

该项目寻求NSERC CRD资金，以扩展行业发起的研究项目的能力。具体来说，维多利亚不列颠哥伦比亚省的恩奎斯特软件公司正在寻找一种企业级分布式IT系统试验台，在其中探索临时设计的容量和性能断点，以重新设计其当前的分布式数据仓库和数据挖掘应用程序。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系统试验台。建造这样一个试验台所需的计算机和网络设备已经在维多利亚大学信息安全和隐私研究(INSPIRE)实验室的赞助下存在，因为这个价值50万美元以上的设备基础是根据CFI New Opportunities/BC KDF/IBM Canada Inc.(实物)赠款获得的，以开发加拿大第一个同类企业规模的网络安全试验台。由于开发企业规模的分布式IT系统测试台正走在开发最终目标网络安全测试台的直接道路上，INSPIRE设备的这种轻微重新定位允许：(A)整体研究计划更及时地推进，(B)更好地服务于产业界和学术界的合作研究需求。由于INSPIRE试验台旨在为两个正在进行的跨加拿大网络安全研究项目提供试验台研究支持(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：贡瓦那：迈向量化安全指标)，这两个项目都处于各自的第二阶段提交/审查过程中，因此，利用可用的准备时间将INSPIRE投入运营是当务之急。这些跨加拿大的网络安全研究项目加在一起，将涉及横跨东海岸到西海岸的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.