| # Ethics, Legal & Responsible-Use Statement |
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| ## Authorization & ownership |
| All systems used to generate this dataset — the attacker/C2 host, both victim hosts, and |
| the Elasticsearch cluster — are **owned and operated by the dataset authors**. All attack |
| activity was **self-authorized red-teaming on our own infrastructure**. No third-party |
| systems were scanned, accessed, or attacked. No unauthorized access occurred. |
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| ## No third-party or personal data |
| - The environment is a controlled lab/production-of-our-own; it does not contain customer |
| PII by design. Any staged "sensitive" data in the attack scenarios is **synthetic decoy** |
| (e.g., `DECOY_AKIA_BENCH`, fabricated CSV rows). |
| - Secrets and business/PII are **removed** before release (see `DATASHEET.md` and |
| `benchmark/lib/pseudonymize.py`): a DB password, OS password hashes, private keys, API |
| tokens, email addresses, and business identifiers do not appear in the distributed files |
| (verified 0 residual). Network identifiers (IPs, hostnames) appear as captured so the |
| data stays investigable; third-party addresses in the background noise are public-actor |
| network metadata (scanners, public services), retained as-is. |
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| ## Safety of the artifacts |
| - The dataset is **log data only**. Strings like `/tmp/.sysupdate`, `/tmp/.shell.php`, or |
| reverse-shell command lines are **inert text in event records** — no malware binaries, |
| no live C2, no exploit payloads are distributed. |
| - The included attack scripts (`corpus/scenarios/*.sh`) perform **non-destructive**, |
| well-known ATT&CK techniques for detection research. They require a Sliver C2 and a |
| consenting lab to run and are provided for reproducibility, not for use against systems |
| you do not own. |
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| ## Intended use & prohibited use |
| - **Intended:** benchmarking SOC/AI investigation agents, detection engineering, teaching, |
| and correlation research. |
| - **Prohibited:** using the scenarios or any derived tooling against systems you are not |
| authorized to test; attempting to re-identify the source environment. |
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| ## Licensing |
| Data under **CC-BY-4.0** (`LICENSE-DATA`); code/scripts under **Apache-2.0** |
| (`LICENSE-CODE`). Attribution appreciated per the dataset citation in `README.md`. |
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| ## Contact / disclosure |
| Issues, re-identification concerns, or takedown requests: open an issue at |
| https://github.com/TocharianOU/secops-es-benchmark/issues |
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