When: Aug 19 2010

Presenting: Raffael Marty, Chief Logger, SecViz.org

Over the past years, organizations have collected more and more data and log files within their networks, systems, and cloud environments. Oftentimes, the data ends up being stored and archived without ever being used. This can be attributed to a lack of tools that help process and analyze all the data, but also to the lack of knowledge around data analysis.

In this presentation we will explore how we can leverage visualization to uncover hidden problems. We will discuss some common visualization libraries and have a look at how they can be deployed to solve security and IT problems. We will look at a number of visualization examples that show how security data benefits from visual representations. For example, how can network traffic, firewall data, or IDS data be visualized effectively?