Learning & Research
Resources @ NSU
Dr. George Hsieh
Department of Computer Science
February 19, 2015
Topics
Cisco Networking Academy
NETLAB+
Cloud Computing
Big Data
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Cisco Networking Academy
 Local Academy at NSU
 Online Curricula (https://cisco.netacad.com)
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CCNA Exploration (4 courses)
CCNA Discovery (4 courses)
Introduction to Cybersecurity * New
Cloud Primer * New
 Cisco Packet Tracer (Windows & Ubuntu Linux)
 CCNA Equipment (Lab)
– Cisco Integrated Service Routers 2811/1841 (9)
• Firewall, VPN, IDS/IPS, wireless, VoIP
– Cisco Catalyst 2960 L2 Switches (6)
* In Progress
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CCNA
Equipment
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NETLAB+
(Online)
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NETLAB+
 Online Virtual Lab @ NSU (http://199.111.112.16)
 Example: Network Defense courses in Fall 2014
– Name: CSC-445/745-F14-LabsA
– Enrollment: 32 students (14 Graduate & 18 UG)
– Total student usage: 1,504 hours * Not counting hours using PCs
 Incorporated two lab series for Network Defense courses
– CompTIA Security+ Labs v2 (Global)
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Security Plus POD (19) [Standard: non-persistent and dynamic assignment]
Eight virtual machines per POD (Win7, Win2K3, Linux, Free BSD)
Assigned 6 (out of 20) standard labs
Assigned 2 additional custom developed labs
– NETDEFENSE1 (Private)
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Network Defense POD (32) [Custom: persistent and fixed assignment]
Added Cisco Packet Tracer and Snort IDS software (Win7)
Assigned 6 custom developed projects (Cisco Firewall, Snort IDS, IPsec)
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Cloud Computing and Big Data
 NNSA Massie Chair of Excellence in Information Assurance and Cyber
Security
– NNSA (September 2009 – present) [PI: Dr. Sandra J. DeLoatch]
– Research project: Securing Cloud Computing
– Design and development of cloud computing infrastructure began in
summer 2010
 Building a Cloud Computing and Big Data Infrastructure for Cyber
Security Research and Education
– Army Research Office ($497,725, FEB 2014 – JAN 2015) [PI: George Hsieh]
– All equipment purchase and installation completed, and systems operational
 Self-Protecting Security for Assured Information Sharing
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– Army Research Office ($487,228, FEB 2012 – FEB 2015) [PI: George Hsieh]
– Research grant provided support for faculty, students, and equipment
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Cloud Computing: Teaching & Research
 Graduate-level Cloud Computing course
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First time offering in Spring 2015 (enrollment: 13)
With strong emphasis in hands-on labs and projects
 Graduate student research (since 2010)
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6 for MS Project/Independent Study (4 completed MS Projects)
Publication: Building a Secure Virtual Lab Infrastructure for IT Education (2012 Int’l
Conf. on Frontiers in Education: Computer Science and Computer Engineering, July
2012, Las Vegas, NV)
Full-spectrum IT projects: research, design, implementation, testing
Build upon previous results while extending capabilities/capacities
 Technology platforms
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VMware products primarily (free academic licenses)
OpenStack efforts growing (open source)
 Private-cloud based virtual lab infrastructure
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– VMware vCloud Director now, and OpenStack later
– Multiple organizations sharing infrastructure resources
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Cloud Computing Equipment
System
Cloud-Production
Function
Server
VRTX
M620
Subtotal:
Cloud-Integration
IBM HS22
7870H5U
Subtotal:
CloudDevelopment
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#Proc
#Core
RAM
(GB)
Hard Disk
(GB)
Qty
2
16
256
30,720
4
8
64
1,024
30,720
2
12
84
4,800
10
60
420
4,800
5
Compute
R820
2
16
512
438
1
Storage
EqualLogic
0
0
0
7,200
1
Admin
T710
2
12
128
2,400
2
Subtotal:
6
40
768
12,438
TOTAL:
24
164
2,212
47,958
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Big Data Research: Cybersecurity Analysis
 Progress (since summer 2013)
– 4 faculty/staff members on research team currently
– 2 undergraduate and 8 graduate students doing research
– 4 graduate & undergraduate students completed capstone research
projects (MS Thesis/Project & BS Seminar)
– Hadoop based data analytics for cybersecurity application
– Publication: Lessons Learned: Building a Big Data Research and
Education Infrastructure (2014 Int’l Conf. on Advances in Big Data
Analytics, July 2014, Las Vegas, NV)
 Collaboration
– Cyber Analysis, Simulation and Experimentation Environment
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With Old Dominion University/VMASC & Tennessee State University
Include using big data and data analysis to inform M&S operations and
analyze M&S results
– Army Training Brain Operating Center (TBOC)
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Big Data Equipment
System
Function
Server #Proc #Core
Master Node
R720xd
2
24
HadoopData Node
Production
R720xd
2
24
Subtotal:
M/D Node
R720xd
HadoopIntegration
Subtotal:
TOTAL:
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RAM
(GB)
Hard Disk
(GB)
Qty
128
3,600
5
64
24,576
12
34
408
1,408
312,912
17
2
24
128
3,600
5
10
120
640
18,000
5
44
528
2,048
330,912
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Big Data Research: Topical Areas
Category
Application
Domains
Hadoop Tools
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Subject Area
Network structure analysis
Network data analysis
Intrusion and anomaly detection
Event log analysis
Data analysis and machine learning (R, Octave)
Graph-processing (Giraph)
Text search (Solr)
Log processing (Flume)
Security - access control (Accumulo)
Real-time processing (Storm)
Lightning-fast cluster computing (Spark)
Database (Mongo)
Database (Cassandra)
Database (HBase)
Machine learning (R-Hadoop, MLlib)
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