Security visualisation

This article is about Sophisticated visualisations for identifying computer network security threats in Big Data. For other uses, see Security visualisation (disambiguation).

Random Force Directed graph visualisation showing popular websites as nodes

Security Visualisation is a subject that broadly covers the aspect of Big Data, Visualisation, human perception and Security. Each day, we are collecting more and more data in the form log files and it is often meaningless if the data is not analyzed thoroughly. Big Data mining techniques like Map Reduce help narrow down the search for meaning in vast data. Data visualisation is a data analytics technique, which is used to engage the human brain into finding patterns in data.

Recognition and cognition of patterns will lead to the recognition and cognition of anomalous patterns as well. Security Visualisation helps a security analyst identify imminent vulnerability and attacks in a network. Simple visualisations like bar charts and pie charts are naïve and unintuitive when it comes to Big Data. Special, customized visual techniques like choropleths and hive plots are often desired for effective communication of Big Data. The book "Applied Security Visualisation" is an in-depth study of the correlation between Security and Data Visualisation.