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Award Abstract #0420906
Development of a Safe, Virtual Imaging Instrument for Logically Destructive Experiments
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CNS
Division of Computer and Network Systems
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| Initial Amendment Date: |
August 26, 2004 |
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| Latest Amendment Date: |
August 24, 2005 |
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| Award Number: |
0420906 |
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| Award Instrument: |
Standard Grant |
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| Program Manager: |
Rita V. Rodriguez
CNS Division of Computer and Network Systems
CSE Directorate for Computer & Information Science & Engineering
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| Start Date: |
September 1, 2004 |
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| Expires: |
August 31, 2009 (Estimated) |
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| Awarded Amount to Date: |
$825000 |
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| Investigator(s): |
Pascal Meunier pmeunier@cerias.purdue.edu (Principal Investigator)
Jan Vitek (Co-Principal Investigator)
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| Sponsor: |
Purdue University
Young Hall
West Lafayette, IN 47907 765/494-4600
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| NSF Program(s): |
UNDISTRIBUTED PANEL/IPA FUNDS,
MAJOR RESEARCH INSTRUMENTATION
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| Field Application(s): |
0000912 Computer Science
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| Program Reference Code(s): |
HPCC, 9251, 9218, 9135, 1189
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| Program Element Code(s): |
9199, 1189
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ABSTRACT
This proposal, developing a networked system to allow safe and rapid analysis of network security and vulnerabilities with respect to worms, viruses, and other malicious conduct, creates a reconfigurable facility, named ReASSURE, for efficient reproducible, controlled, and safely contained experiments in computer science and technology with emphasis on information assurance and security. The new instrument will integrate functionalities in a manner that will enable high levels of safety and efficiency in manipulating, testing, and developing potentially dangerous experimental networking and virtual machine software while providing computational power to remote users. Advancing the study of virtual machine technology, the activity offers settings where potentially dangerous experimentation with networking and VM technologies can be performed safely. Providing as testbed networking facility, the infrastructure supports projects that require "self-contained" computing environments in computer science (including security), computer technology, forensics, and information warfares.
Broader Impact: Undergraduate classes will make use of the instrument, and both graduate and undergraduate students will be involved in its making. Attention will be given to women and underrepresented groups. The testbed impacts 15 projects of 8 faculty members at Purdue and at the CERIAS affiliates, Syracuse University, and the US Air Force Institute of Technology.
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