Overview
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This project presents an opportunity to develop practical experience and skills in the design and deployment of virtual infrastructure to support network security research. Following an investigation of virtualisation technologies, the student will be guided through the design and deployment of a virtual infrastructure framework. The framework will enable security research by supporting the construction of reusable components (e.g. authentication servers, web servers, and network monitoring systems); allowing the rapid construction of test environments from existing components; and permitting the evaluation and analysis of the constructed environment through experimentation with both exploit and vulnerability assessment tools. The main goal of the project is to design and deploy an infrastructure framework that allows researchers to develop framework components and include these components in a library in a consistent manner, thereby promoting the reuse of such components. The outputs of this project are likely to include:
- identification of common components used in network security experiments
- specification of a deployment platform (software, hardware, and networking requirements)
- documentation relating to the use of the platform
- an example of a component being added to the library and the use of that component in an experimental architecture
- an example of components from the library being combined in an experimental scenario
Familiarity with virtualisation software such as VMware or QEMU and with Linux system / network administration will be beneficial.
- Study level
- Honours
- Supervisors
- QUT
- Organisational unit
Science and Engineering Faculty
- Research area
- Contact
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Please contact the supervisor.
Dr Ernest Foo
