Information Security and Privacy (InSPiRe) Laboratory

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Dedicated $545k CAD Cyber-Security Research Facility:

Focused on the accurate simulation of real-world corporate-scale networks at full wire speeds.
Full support for the scientific tenet of experimental repeatability.
Capabile of generating abritrary background network traffic flows up to 1 Gbps bandwidths.
Ability to overlay specific attacks and normal services.
Dedicated facility allowing complete control over all network traffic and traffic timings.

Equipment:

42 dual processor Xeon 3.0GHz blade servers each with 4 1 Gbps ethernet ports
9 2.8 GHz IBM S-Series PCs each with 19" LCD and 2 1Gbps ethernet ports
2 3.4 GHz 2G Mem IBM Z-series PCs each with a 19" LCD and 4 1Gbps ethernet ports
2 3.4 GHz 2G Mem IBM Z-series PCs each with a 2x2 20.1" LCD quad display and 4 1Gbps ethernet ports
2 3.0 GHz 2G Mem IBM x386 2U server each with 5x73.6 G Raid
CISCO 4503 Catalyst Switch with 4 Gbps single mode fiber uplink
Four 1 Gbps Cat5e networks to each host
4 Gbps single mode fiber connection to UVic's research network

Structure:

supported by major grants from:

Canadian Foundation for Innovation
BC Knowledge Development Fund
In-kind donation by IBM Canada Inc.

additional funding from:

University of Victoria

2003 - 2012 Information Security and Privacy Research (InSPiRe) Laboratory, University of Victoria