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The University of Arizona.Rights
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The use of smart infrastructures, with the integration of the digital devices and controls, provides better use of the resources. However, this also brings multiple vulnerabilities compared to the isolated environments. Hence, there is an urgent need to study these environments in terms of their management and cybersecurity. Studying cybersecurity of the smart infrastructures requires multiple complex testbeds that can show how an attack can propagate, which is extremely difficult to own for an organization alone. Therefore, in this thesis we introduce Federated Cybersecurity Testbed as a Service (FCTaaS) for facilitating integration of isolated, geographically dispersed cybersecurity testbeds whether it is physical or virtual, under single federation for researchers and educators to create, perform, reproduce cybersecurity experiments within policies set by the cybersecurity testbeds operators. We first present our FCTaaS architecture and, then demonstrate how to perform cybersecurity experiments on geographically dispersed cybersecurity testbeds such as network-based Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a critical infrastructure testbed within FCTaaS environment.Type
textElectronic Thesis
Degree Name
M.S.Degree Level
mastersDegree Program
Graduate CollegeElectrical & Computer Engineering