Dr. Salamah Salamah  

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Traffic-Based Model Generation (TBMG) Prototype

Release Date

December, 2017

Overview

Identifying and mitigating network service issues is a difficult problem due to the ever growing and evolving technology space. A common problem associated with in-depth testing of network protocols is the availability of software that communicates across disparate protocols. Many times, the software required to communicate with these services is not publicly available. Developing such software requires research to gain the expertise and understanding of the protocol specification. The efforts resulted in the requirements definition that was used by the MSSwE practicum courses to develop the Traffic-Based Model Generation (TBMG) prototype tool. TBMG allows for ways to automate the testing of the aforementioned protocols by developing theories and models associated with protocol reverse engineering.

Significance

The TBGM tool provides ARL and cybersecurity analysts, including those from other federal agencies, with a unique, previously unavailable capability, i.e., to quickly develop protocol software prototypes in the form of network simulator-3 (ns-3) models and Scapy protocol modules. This work greatly reduces the time taken to test network services that use non-standard and non-IP protocols.

Source Code

• TBMG github Repository

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