A Mission-Centric Visualization Tool for Cybersecurity Situation Awareness

Abstract

We present a novel visualization tool that provides high-level situation awareness for cybersecurity scenarios. Our visualization tool is tailored to intrinsically higher-level information presentation centered around cyberdefense missions. We applied our visualizations to data logs from the 2011 UCSB International Capture The Flag competition, which was designed to mirror general cybersecurity scenarios that would be encountered by the military. In this paper, we present our system and user interface design and discuss some anomalies in the data that are highlighted through the use of our visualization tool.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA584395

Entities

People

  • João P. Hespanha
  • Kyriakos G Vamvoudakis
  • Laura Devendorf
  • Nichole Stockman
  • Richard Kemmerer
  • Tobias Hoellerer

Organizations

  • University of California, Santa Barbara

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Area Security
  • Competition
  • Computer Network Security
  • Computer Networks
  • Control Panels
  • Cyberattacks
  • Cybersecurity
  • Data Sets
  • Gantt Charts
  • Information Operations
  • Intrusion Detection
  • Military Research
  • Networks
  • Probability
  • Security
  • Situational Awareness
  • Tools

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design

Technology Areas

  • Cyber