SEER: a security experimentation EnviRonment for DETER

Abstract

Configuring a security experiment can be tedious, involving many low level and repetitive configuration tasks. In order to make DETER’s capabilites accessible to users at all skill levels, we have designed and implemented a Security Experimentation EnviRonment (SEER) that provides security researchers the ability to create, plan, and iterate through a large range of experimental scenarios with relative ease. SEER integrates various tools for configuring and executing experiments and provides a user-friendly interface for experimenters to use the tools. SEER aims to support a wide range of experimentation requirements such that many researchers will prefer to interact with DETER through it, fostering collaboration within the security research community. 1