Visualizing Risks: Icons for Information Attack Scenarios

Abstract

This paper proposes icons and visual conventions for rapid comprehension and presentation of information security (INFOSEC) attack scenario information: Malicious Intruder, Buffer Overflow, Data Scavenging, QuickTime and a Photo - JPEG decompressor are needed to see this picture. Theft Poorly Installed Software Attack scenarios describe diverse ways to compromise the security of computer systems and networks. Visual attack scenarios help defenders see system ambiguities, imprecision, vulnerabilities and omissions, thus speeding up risk analysis, requirements gathering, safeguard selection, cryptographic protocol analysis, and INFOSEC training. The Naval Research Laboratory sponsored this work, a subset of a larger working paper Visual Conventions for Information Attack Scenarios, 1 to develop conventions for visualizing INFOSEC scenarios.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2000
Accession Number
ADA421372

Entities

People

  • Hilary H. Hosmer

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Cyber
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Biometric Security
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computers
  • Cryptography
  • Cybersecurity
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Information Operations
  • Information Security
  • Intellectual Property
  • Military Research
  • Risk
  • Risk Analysis
  • Second World War
  • Security
  • Security Protocols
  • Vulnerability

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Systems Analysis and Design