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DHS is sponsoring an initiative to facilitate the accessibility of
computer and network operational data for use in cyber defense
research and development. The PREDICT (Protected Repository for the
Defense of Infrastructure against Cyber Threats) initiative represents
an important three-way partnership between government, critical
information infrastructure providers, and the security development
community (both academic and commercial), all of whom seek technical
solutions to protect the public and private information
infrastructure. The goal is to bridge the gap between the producers of
security-relevant network operations data and technology developers
and evaluators who can leverage this data to accelerate the design,
production, and evaluation of next-generation cyber security
solutions.
Specifically, PREDICT provides developers and evaluators with
regularly updated network operations data sources relevant to cyber
defense technology development, including sources that are minimally
anonymized, if not entirely uncensored. The data sets will provide
developers timely and detailed insight into cyber attack phenomena
occurring across the Internet, and in some cases will reveal the
effects of these attacks on networks that are owned or managed by the
data producers. A key motivation of PREDICT is to make these
data sources more widely available to technology developers and
evaluators, who today often determine the efficacy of their technical
solutions on anecdotal evidence or small-scale test experiments,
rather than on more comprehensive real-world data.
PREDICT Workshop Presentations, September 27th, 2005.
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