Unified Host and Network Data Set
This provides a critical resource for cybersecurity researchers, though it is incremental as it focuses on data release rather than novel methods.
The paper addresses the lack of operational enterprise network data sets in cybersecurity research by introducing a large data set derived from Los Alamos National Laboratory's network, aiming to catalyze new research and encourage similar releases.
The lack of data sets derived from operational enterprise networks continues to be a critical deficiency in the cyber security research community. Unfortunately, releasing viable data sets to the larger com- munity is challenging for a number of reasons, primarily the difficulty of balancing security and privacy concerns against the fidelity and utility of the data. This chapter discusses the importance of cyber secu- rity research data sets and introduces a large data set derived from the operational network environment at Los Alamos National Laboratory. The hope is that this data set and associated discussion will act as a catalyst for both new research in cyber security as well as motivation for other organizations to release similar data sets to the community.