Profile

Raffael Marty

Raffael Marty

Follow this member

Member since: October 2008

Bio: 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.

Areas of Interest:

Activity

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote Maturity Scale for IT Data Management

    The maturity scale for IT data management is an attempt to shed some light onto the event and information management markets. Especially on log management, security information and event management, and some of the advanced analytics space. By using this scale, there are a number of conclusions that can be drawn, most notably that the security visualization or IT data visualization market is currently fairly complicated and small.

    …

    3 years 5 weeks ago

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote How do you encode hundreds of data points into one single graph? Use Sparklines.
    Have you tried to visualize your traffic flows? Did you have the problem that your graphs got really cluttered? Did you find a way around that problem? Did you …

    3 years 10 weeks ago

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote How do you visualize your traffic flow (NetFlow) logs?
    In my last blog post I showed how you collect NetFlow records and format them suitable for visualization. The next step, after the data has been processed and …

    3 years 12 weeks ago

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote How do you prepare your security data for visualization?
    Do you know how much traffic is transmitted on your networks? Do you know what protocols are in use and what machines are using them? Are there spyware …

    3 years 12 weeks ago

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote What is the right graph to use in what situation?

    Do you like pie charts? Have you ever thought about replacing them with a bar chart? Or a line chart? Do you know when to use what chart? Here is a little table that you can use to make your choice:

    Pie chart - Just don't use them. Use a bar or line chart instead. If you have to, use them to compare values of a field as proportions of percentages of the whole.

    Bar …

    3 years 14 weeks ago

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote How do you create good visualizations?

    I am sure you have seen graphs that were just horrible to look at. Even worse, it was almost impossible to determine what the graph was trying to communicate. One of the first things you should learn - before you even go ahead and generate a graph - are some basic visualization principles :

    …

    3 years 14 weeks ago

  • Raffael Marty Raffael Marty wrote How Do You Get Started With Security Visualization?

    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:

    …

    3 years 14 weeks ago

Friends' Activity

Follow other ITworld members or sign in with your Facebook account in order to view your friends' activity.

Comments

Raffael Marty's Comments (1)

  • Commented on How do you prepare your security data for visualization?

    There are a ton of NetFlow visualization tools out there. There are open source solutions like nfsen, for example. Other commercial solutions include Arbor Networks or Mazu. But they are all for pay.My blog post shows how to do it manually and is just an example of how to apply hands-on visualization to some security data source. I could have picked any other data source to illustrate this.

    3 years ago

Ask a Question