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. of Victoria bc正在寻找一个企业级的分布式IT系统测试平台，以探索临时设计的容量和性能断点，以便重新设计他们当前的分布式数据仓库和数据挖掘应用程序。NSERC研发基金将用于将该工业项目转化为更广泛适用的通用分布式IT系统测试平台的开发。在维多利亚大学信息安全和隐私研究（InSPiRe）实验室的支持下，建立这样一个测试平台所需的必要计算机和网络设备已经存在，因为这个50多万美元的设备基础是在之前的CFI新机遇/BC KDF/IBM加拿大公司（实物）资助下获得的，用于开发加拿大首个此类企业规模的网络安全测试平台。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，因此对InSPiRe设备的轻微重新定位允许：(a)整体研究计划以更及时的方式向前推进，以及(b)更好地服务于工业和学术合作研究需求。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（即NSERC战略网络提案：互联网系统安全网络（ISSNet）和已提交的MITACS完整提案：Gondwana：走向定量安全指标）提供试验台研究支持，这两个项目都处于各自的第二阶段提交/审查过程中，因此必须利用可用的交付时间将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两岸的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.