Title
A survey of security visualization for computer network logs
Abstract
Network security is an important area in computer science. Although great efforts have already been made regarding security problems, networks are still threatened by all kinds of potential attacks, which may lead to huge damage and loss. Log files are main sources for security analysis. However, log files are not user friendly. It is laborious work to obtain useful information from log files. Compared with log files, visualization systems designed for security purposes provide more perceptive and effective sources for security analysis. Most security visualization systems are based on log files. In this paper, we provide a survey on visualization designs for computer network security. In this survey, we looked into different security visual analytics, and we organized them into five categories. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/sec.324
Security and Communication Networks
Keywords
Field
DocType
visualization system,visualization design,security problem,security analysis,security purpose,network security,different security,computer network security,log file,computer network log,security visualization system
Computer security,Software security assurance,Computer science,Computer network,Information security,Security service,Cloud computing security,Web application security,Security information and event management,Network Access Control,Logical security
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
5
4
1939-0114
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.56
113
Authors
5
Search Limit
100113
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanping Zhang1100.56
Yang Xiao26317456.36
Min Chen31306.93
Jingyuan Zhang465360.53
Hongmei Deng550133.12