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Home-Centric Visualization of Network Traffic for Security Administration (2004)
| Content Provider | CiteSeerX |
|---|---|
| Author | Ball, Robert North, Chris Fink, Glenn A. |
| Abstract | Today’s system administrators, burdened by rapidly increasing network activity, must quickly perceive the security state of their networks, but they often have only text-based tools to work with. These tools often provide no overview to help users grasp the big-picture. Our interviews with administrators have revealed that they need visualization tools; thus, we present VISUAL (Visual Information Security Utility for Administration Live), a network security visualization tool that allows users to see communication patterns between their home (or internal) networks and external hosts. VI-SUAL is part of our Network Eye security visualization architecture, also described in this paper. We have designed and tested a new computer security visualization that gives a quick overview of current and recent communication patterns in the monitored network to the users. Many tools can detect and show fan-out and fan-in, but VISUAL shows network events graphically, in context. Visualization helps users comprehend the intensity of network events more intuitively than text-based tools can. VI-SUAL provides insight for networks with up to 2,500 home hosts and 10,000 external hosts, shows the relative activity of hosts, displays them in a constant relative position, and reveals the ports and protocols used. |
| File Format | |
| Publisher Date | 2004-01-01 |
| Publisher Institution | In VizSEC/DMSEC ’04: Proceedings of the 2004 ACM workshop on Visualization and |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Relative Activity Many Tool Security State External Host Home-centric Visualization Network Eye Security Visualization Architecture Network Traffic Home Host Monitored Network Network Activity Text-based Tool Today System Administrator Visual Information Security Utility Administration Live Constant Relative Position Network Event Network Security Visualization Tool Quick Overview New Computer Security Visualization Security Administration Communication Pattern Recent Communication Pattern Visualization Tool |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Conference Proceedings |
