PortVis

McPherson, Jonathan; Ma, Kwan‐Liu; Krystosk, Paul; Bartoletti, Tony; Christensen, Marvin

doi:10.1145/1029208.1029220

Cited by 146 publications

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“…Such methods increase the interaction load, cause occlusion, and clutter. In contrast, two-dimensional methods such as PortVis [26] provide an occlusion-free method to identify major events in dynamic networks.…”

Section: Network Analysis and Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Netostat: analyzing dynamic flow patterns in high-speed networks

et al. 2022

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Understanding flow traffic patterns in networks, such as the Internet or service provider networks, is crucial to improving their design and building them robustly. However, as networks grow and become more complex, it is increasingly cumbersome and challenging to study how the many flow patterns, sizes and the continually changing source-destination pairs in the network evolve with time.We present Netostat, a visualization-based network analysis tool that uses visual representation and a mathematics framework to study and capture flow patterns, using graph theoretical methods such as clustering, similarity and difference measures. Netostat generates an interactive graph of all traffic patterns in the network,

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Section: Network Analysis and Visualizationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Netostat: analyzing dynamic flow patterns in high-speed networks

et al. 2022

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“…In network monitoring, Mansmann et al [18] used treemaps to represent the hierarchical characteristics of IP addresses, and users can freely view the hierarchical summary or detailed information through interaction. McPherson et al [19] provided an interactive method of area selection and magnification observation to prevent the interaction of overly dense data points. Considering the different levels of importance of port number sections, less important port numbers were represented by smaller graphical elements.…”

Section: B Network Attack Visualizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

PTVis: Visual Narrative and Auxiliary Decision to Assist in Comprehending the Penetration Testing Process

Zheng

Wang

et al. 2020

IEEE Access

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Due to the complexity of network penetration and the diversity of penetration methods, traditional analysis approaches analyse only a single penetration method or part of the network penetration process. Moreover, the lack of customized exploration makes it difficult to discover and analyse network penetration behaviors. Characterizing and summarizing the penetration testing process based on an interpretive visual analysis approach can enhance researchers' comprehension of penetration testing and further promote the development of network security technologies. To assist with this process, we design PTVis, a visual approach for the penetration testing process summarization based on visual narrative and auxiliary decision. PTVis consists of two primary components: (1) a visual interface that displays customized penetration testing paths, and (2) a component that effectively displays the results of penetration testing. To design PTVis, penetration testing paths that combine penetration testing methods and tools are built via cooperative multi-view and customized exploration, which facilitates the exploration of penetration testing. For evaluation, a qualitative user study is performed on two groups. The feedback from the study demonstrates that PTVis can enhance the user's knowledge of the penetration testing process.

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“…The timeline is a visualization of the entire time range available to the system, PortVis, from its data source [3]. The main (hour) visualization depicts the activity during a given time unit [14]. It consists of a 256 x 256 grid in which each dot represents one of the 65,536 ports [3].…”

Section: Portvismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It consists of a 256 x 256 grid in which each dot represents one of the 65,536 ports [3]. And the port visualization is a view of all the activity and data available that concerns a particular port [3,14]. The histogram corresponds to the relative frequencies of each data value.…”

Section: Portvismentioning

confidence: 99%

Visualization Tools for Network Security

Attipoe¹,

Yan²,

Turner³

et al. 2016

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Network security visualization tool plays an important role in the network security filed. It's considered the first line of defense because it provides security analysts with visualized network information we need to either prevent or investigate an attack, an intrusion, an anomalous activity and much more. In this paper, we briefly describe the 13 network visualization tools we surveyed and we outline their advantages and disadvantages. We employ qualitative coding as part of our research design or framework to extract some metrics from the list of advantages and disadvantages of the tools to help us design an evaluation methodology, which we plan to use to measure the effectiveness of the visualization tools through usability studies.

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PortVis

Cited by 146 publications

References 8 publications

Netostat: analyzing dynamic flow patterns in high-speed networks

Netostat: analyzing dynamic flow patterns in high-speed networks

PTVis: Visual Narrative and Auxiliary Decision to Assist in Comprehending the Penetration Testing Process

Visualization Tools for Network Security

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