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Skaion's Traffic Generation System (TGS)

Skaion's Traffic Generation System (TGS) generates real network traffic by simulating users and services on real and emulated hosts. The TGS Master component controls the behavior of services, and can mimic network patterns seen in the wild.

TGS-generated traffic includes:

• Simulation of users performing real tasks: web surfing, email, FTP, IRC, etc.;
• Both Windows and Unix (Linux) systems;
• Realistic background attacks and scans.

The Skaion TGS simulates both normal and malicious background traffic. Simulated users inside and outside the protected network surf the web, send email, and perform other activities. The simulated Internet includes thousands of generated websites, coalition users, and the steady stream of malicious traffic that comes from being connected to the Internet. Based on traffic characterized at the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, NY and other locations, Skaion simulates malicious scans and attacks unrelated to the more sophisticated attack scenario being tested.

The TGS simulates the activity of hundreds of statistically-distinct users on thousands of hosts. It provides both Microsoft Windows-based and Linux-based traffic generation, including both network traffic and host activity. Depending on the degree to which they may be controlled programmatically, native applications (e.g. RealPlayer) could be incorporated into the TGS as additional bots.

The TGS is distributed and scalable, and can be fully functional on a single machine, or run across multiple machines for larger simulations.