Paper Info
Title
Supporting Collaboration Among Cyber Security Analysts Through Visualizing Their Analytical Reasoning Processes
Abstract
When a cyber-attack occurred, cyber-defense analysts are faced with large amounts of complex multimedia data in various forms of modality that comes from network monitoring systems and multimedia databases. A real-time response requires analysts to quickly exchange their findings and effectively divide the tasks amongst each other. We proposes a cyber analysis collaboration support system that captures and integrates the analytical process of analysts based on a cognitive model. The system uses a semi-structured representation with a visualization map that visualizes and integrates the analytical process of analysts. The map is designed with usability, accessibility, and User Experience (UX) measures in mind to enable analysts to access each others actions, observations of suspicious network events, and hypotheses about potential cyber-attacks. We evaluated the system with human subjects. The results show that the system enabled the subjects to branch off their hypotheses about possible attacks and to divide their tasks efficiently.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/ICMEW.2018.8551497
2018 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo Workshops (ICMEW)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Cybersecurity analysis,cyber-enabled multimedia data,multimedia data analysis,cyber analysts collaboration,cybersecurity visualization,usable visual maps
Computer vision,User experience design,Visualization,Computer science,Support system,Usability,Analytic reasoning,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Network monitoring,Cognitive model
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2330-7927
978-1-5386-4196-5
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lindsey Thomas100.34
Adam Vaughan200.34
Zachary Courtney300.34
Chen Zhong4214.48
Awny Alnusair5507.43