Security Visualization
by Raffael Marty
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How Do You Get Started With Security Visualization?

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November 03, 2008, 12:27 AM — Security visualization is the process of taking security logs from firewalls, IDSs, IPSs, operating systems, etc. to then generate pictures that help you analyze the logs. Here are some free resources that you should have a look at if you are interested in getting started with security visualization:

Check out the SecViz Web site.
Subscribe to the SecViz RSS feed.
Follow the @secviz twitter feed.
Download DAVIX distribution and start visualizing your own data.

These links should at least inspire you to start thinking in new terms - in images and graphs. Come back for more posts where I will provide tips on how you can visualize your own security data.

Firewall Log Visualization with Parallel Coordinates Parallel coordinate graph of a firewall log.

How do you create good visualizations?

Raffael Marty most recently co-founded Loggly, a cloud-based log management company. As an entrepreneur, he is interested in enterprise and infrastructure startups, business models, and technologies. He has been a long term data analysis and visualization enthusiast and has spent a lot of time building and defining the security visualization space through open source tools, writing books, a number of papers, and speaking at conferences around the world. He is frequently consulting as an industry expert in all aspects of log analysis, computer security, and data visualization. Raffy has held various positions in the log management space at companies like Splunk, ArcSight, and IBM research where he also earned his masters in computer science. In addition to visualization, big data analysis, and computer security, Raffy is all over cloud-based business models.

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