Cooperative Work Systems for the Security of Digital Computing Infrastructure

On open digital computing infrastructure, various large-scale and complicated malicious behaviors are increasingly threatening the security of digital computing infrastructure. In this paper, a Cooperative Work Model (CRM) is presented by extending the conceptions of the Universal Turing Machine to deal with the threats. Then the Cooperative Work System Framework (CWSF) is derived from the model. Based on the framework, two practical Cooperative Work Systems (CWSs) are developed to track and analyze the Botnet and DDoS on digital computing infrastructure respectively. The systems collectively use and coordinate various monitoring systems distributed in the back-bone network of the infrastructure. The experimental results of analyzing typical security events show that the framework and systems are efficient and effective to collaboratively use diverse related network systems for monitoring and analyzing the large-scale network events. Currently, the systems are running steadily in the monitoring environment of a large-scale back-bone network.