The DeterLab research community is an open, expanding group of cyber-security researchers worldwide, who use DeterLab as the experimental facility for their scientific work on cyber-security and cyber-defense technology.
DeterLab experimenters not only use the facility, but they also provide input to the DETER project team, helping our work of extending DeterLab’s capabilities. In fact, the first wave of research users of the DETER testbed made significant contributions to the initial set of tools available in DeterLab. DETER project activity includes efforts to continue this tradition by collaborating with DeterLab experimenters to create new tools and new extensibility features of DeterLab that can enable researchers to extend their toolsets.
The accomplishments of the DETER research community can be viewed by several measures of activity over 8 years:
- Over 200 projects spanning 150 institutions from a dozen countries have used DeterLab for their scientific work.
- Across these projects, over 2000 research team members have used DeterLab.
- Over 120 papers have been published by DeterLab researchers, on topics ranging from malware analysis to botnets to smartgrid security analysis.
- Educational use has included over 38 educators an 1700 students who have used DeterLab for hands-on learning about cyber-security technology.
As the research community has expanded and matured, the range of cyber-security scientific work now covers several areas that include not only core cyber-security areas -- such as DDoS defense, intrusion detection, and network defense for critical infrastructure control systems -- but also new or cross-disciplinary research areas such as control-plane network security, provenance of network trace datasets, anonymity network robustness, and routing security and multicast security for smart power grids.
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