Simulated Anomalous Behavior & Recognition (SABRE)
Execution and analysis of cyber security experiments requires an environment that closely mimics the actual operational environment and provides sensors to monitor and record transient signals. The proposed system will leverage a PNNL prototype traffic generator - TrafficBot. TrafficBot generates diverse network traffic real-time to approximate actual network traffic.

Our approach is unique in providing a simulated scalable network architecture through:

* Test bed infrastructure composed of inter-networked simulators.
* Synthetic users with programmable stochastic behavior profiles to provide the signal source.
* Data servers to provide the signal sinks.
* Cyber attack and system failure simulator to inject noise.
* Sensors and analysis tools to monitor the state of the systems and detect anomalous conditions.
* A framework for the definition of a baseline internet model configuration to provide asset interdependence and a systematic approach to testing vulnerabilities will be created.
 
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The National Center for Advanced Secure Systems Research NCASSR) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is a multi-institutional cybersecurity research team. NCASSR focuses basic and applied research necessary to develop next generation information security technologies that address national cybersecurity needs. NCASSR is led by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and supported by funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR).


SELS 0.7 released
Secure Email List Services (SELS) is an open source software for creating and developing secure email list services among user communities.
 
Strong community engagement strengthens cybersecurity research and development
NCASSR-supported exploratory research at NCSA and elsewhere has sparked additional external funding and development opportunities as well as successful deployment and adoption by users ranging from the defense sector to state law enforcement to the utilities industry.
 
NCASSR Collaborator Goes To Washington
Carl Gunter, a professor in the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science and a project lead on NCASSR-supported work involving adaptive, secure messaging, recently spoke to an audience of congressional staffers and lobbyists on Capitol Hill regarding ways to address a variety of critical cybersecurity issues in areas such as healthcare and energy distribution.