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The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom
An anonymous reader writes "This month's Communications of the ACM (does not seem to have a link to online text) has an article about The Spinning Cube of Potential Doom, a security visualization tool that I first saw at SC2003. The cube displays data from Bro along 3 axes and creates interesting visual results (port scans, barber poles, lawnmower). This definitely makes patterns in all that 'boring log data' jump out. This is a very interesting development, the ability to monitor in real time and replay historical security related information. Definitely a step towards the new types of tools we will need to secure hosts and networks."
When the eventual goal of having this data displayed in a real time setting the applications of usefulness will be startling. Data that had to be updated manually during the conference, will be available to researchers to do tci-square analysis to approximate the optimum network efficencies. Even use in the business sector and th ability to analyze huge databases will be quite amazing, although at least a half-decade down the road. Besides the primary educational aspect of the Cube, the secondary goal of the Cube will see fruition as to how investigate new techniques in visually analyzing network traffic and also to develop a tool that would potentially assist those involved with computer security. Really fascinating stuff.