Ant-Based Cyber Defense

Software · Tue Sep 29 00:00:00 EDT 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20220718.75· OSTI ID:1327977 · Code ID:76601

Fink, Glenn ^[1]

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1. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)

ABCD is a four-level hierarchy with human supervisors at the top, a top-level agent called a Sergeant controlling each enclave, Sentinel agents located at each monitored host, and mobile Sensor agents that swarm through the enclaves to detect cyber malice and misconfigurations. The code comprises four parts: (1) the core agent framework, (2) the user interface and visualization, (3) test-range software to create a network of virtual machines including a simulated Internet and user and host activity emulation scripts, and (4) a test harness to allow the safe running of adversarial code within the framework of monitored virtual machines.

• Short Name / Acronym: ABCD
• Project Type: Closed Source
• Site Accession Number: 5911
• Software Type: Scientific
• License(s): Other
• Programming Language(s): Python 2.6 or later
• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE

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  Primary Award/Contract Number:

  AC05-76RL01830
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-76RL01830
• Code ID: 76601
• OSTI ID: 1327977
• Country of Origin: United States