- Visual Analysis of Network Traffic for Resource Planning, Interactive Monitoring, and Interpretation of Security Threats
- Florian Mansmann, Daniel Keim, Stephen North, Brian Rexroad, and Daniel Sheleheda
- IEEE Trans. Vis. Comput. Graph. 13(6) pp. 1105-1112, 2007.
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- Abstract
The Internet has become a wild place: malicious code is spread on personal
computers across the world, deploying botnets ready to attack the network
infrastructure. The vast number of security incidents and other anomalies
overwhelms attempts at manual analysis, especially when monitoring ser
vice provider backbone links.
We present an approach to interactive visualization with a case study
indicating that interactive visualization can be applied to gain more
insight into these large data sets. We superimpose a hierarchy on IP
address space, and study the suitability of Treemap variants for each
hierarchy level. Because viewing the whole IP hierarchy at once is not
practical for most tasks, we evaluate layout stability when eliding large
parts of the hierarchy, while maintaining the visibility and ordering
of the data of interest.
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