Project abstract
The WOMBAT project aims at providing new means to understand the existing and emerging threats that are targeting the Internet economy and the net citizens. To reach this goal, the proposal includes three key workpackages:
- real time gathering of a diverse set of security related raw data;
- enrichment of this input by means of various analysis techniques;
- root cause identification and understanding of the phenomena under scrutiny.
The acquired knowledge will be shared with all interested security actors (ISPs, CERTs, security vendors, etc.), enabling them to make sound security investment decisions and to focus on the most dangerous activities first. The project began in January 2008. An invitation-based Workshop on Internet Security Threats Data Collection and Sharing (WISTDCS) was held in Amsterdam, on 21-22/04/08. Proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Press, available soon on IEEEXplore. A review of the state of the art, and a requirements analysis deliverable are now complete and available to the public. Analysis of contextual information, and the production of an early warning and root cause analysis prototype is expected by 2010, end of the project.
