D4 Project Architecture

Objectives

A lightweight protocol to support streaming collection of different data types
A minimal architecture to create dedicated sensor network (internal or external)
Keeping a simple set of software to support a wide variety of sensor types (software, hardware or virtual)
Provide an all-in-one open source solution with minimal dependencies
Supporting additional information sharing capabilities to interconnect D4 sensor networks
A set of default ready-to-run sensor network such as a DDoS backscatter traffic monitoring, Passive DNS collection or specific network monitoring

For more details about the encapsulation protocol, check out the format page.