Global InfoTek, Inc. will research methods for developmental testing of cyber attacks on enterprise applications and services. The research will focus on visualization, analytics and data capture approaches for determining the impact of cyber attacks on Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) based services and applications. The resulting research will create prototype tools that can assist development teams in identifying security vulnerabilities, performance inhibitors and robustness of services that would be deployed in conjunction with a SOA framework. The initial challenges will address how to create a flexible visualization platform that can show the impact of a cyber attack on multiple layers of the Opens System Interconnection (OSI) stack from hardware performance to network topologies to security services to data services. This visualization will be accompanied by an analytical engine that can make meaning of the data captures from enterprise sensors and provide it to developers in a manner that is meaningful and useful. These tools will be specifically designed to adapt to the rapid addition and subtraction of SOA services and to provide repeatable tests that developers can use to test, debug and validate service and application performance.
Keywords: Cyber Testing, Visualization, Log File Aggregation, Test Range, Soa Test, Test Harness, Cyber Mission Assurance
