A testbed for evaluation and analysis of stepping stone attack attribution techniques

Jianqiang  Xin; Linfeng  Zhang; Brad  Aswegan; John  Dickerson; Julie  Dickerson; Thomas  Daniels; Yong  Guan

2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities

Research Article

A testbed for evaluation and analysis of stepping stone attack attribution techniques

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    author={Jianqiang  Xin and Linfeng  Zhang and Brad  Aswegan and John  Dickerson and Julie  Dickerson and Thomas  Daniels and Yong  Guan},
    title={A testbed for evaluation and analysis of stepping stone attack attribution techniques},
    proceedings={2nd International IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks and Communities},
    publisher={IEEE},
    proceedings_a={TRIDENTCOM},
    year={2006},
    month={7},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649171}
}

Jianqiang Xin
Linfeng Zhang
Brad Aswegan
John Dickerson
Julie Dickerson
Thomas Daniels
Yong Guan
Year: 2006
A testbed for evaluation and analysis of stepping stone attack attribution techniques
TRIDENTCOM
IEEE
DOI: 10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649171

Jianqiang Xin¹^,*, Linfeng Zhang¹^,*, Brad Aswegan¹^,*, John Dickerson¹^,*, Julie Dickerson¹^,*, Thomas Daniels¹^,*, Yong Guan¹^,*

1: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011

*Contact email: jqxin@iastate.edu, zhanglf@iastate.edu, baswegan@iastate.edu, jedicker@iastate.edu, julied@iastate.edu, daniels@iastate.edu, yguan@iastate.edu

Abstract

This paper describes a testbed for experimentally evaluating stepping stone attack attribution techniques. There is a lack of comprehensive experimental evaluation of many different stepping stone attack detection schemes. Therefore, there are no objective, comparable evaluation results on the effectiveness and limitations of these schemes. In this research, we designed and built a scalable testbed environment that can evaluate all existing stepping stone attack attribution schemes reproducibly, provide a stable platform for further research on this area and be easily reconfigured, expanded, and operated with user-friendly interface. This testbed environment has been established in a dedicated stepping stone attack attribution research laboratory. An evaluation of proposed stepping stone techniques is currently underway.

Published: 2006-07-05
Publisher: IEEE

: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TRIDNT.2006.1649171