PI:  Doug Jacobson

Summary: Internet-Scale Event and Attack Generation Environment (ISEAGE pronounced Ice Age) ISEAGE is a unique facility at a public university dedicated to creating a virtual Internet for the purpose of researching, designing, and testing cyber defense mechanisms as well as analysis of cyber attacks. Unlike computer-based simulations, real attacks will be played out against real equipment. Researchers and vendors are working hard to provide products and services to help defend against cyber attacks, but users of these technologies often do not have any mechanisms to test or even try out these defenses. ISEAGE provides a controlled environment where real world attacks are played out against different configurations of equipment. ISEAGE contains a vast warehouse of attack tools that simulate point-to-point and distributed attacks. The creation of ISEAGE represents a new paradigm in the area of security research, cyber forensics, and will enable new and innovative research needed to solve the current security problems facing the world today.
The goal of ISEAGE is to provide a world class research and education facility to enhance the current state of the art in information assurance. ISEAGE will develop a world class cyber terrorism preparedness, response, and training facility to help further the field that will protect Iowa State University from cyber crime. This one of kind facility will be the catalyst for bringing together top researchers from several disciplines for a common goal of making computing safer. The ISEAGE will provide an integrated environment to work on synergistic research projects in information assurance and to solve the problems facing industry, government, and law enforcement.