Category: Information Security
Everything filed under Information Security.
π, Awareness, DataVis, VAST 2013, Moar data! & GReader Machinations
Far too many interesting bits to spam on Twitter individually but each is worth getting the word out…
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 4 (D3 Word Trees)
This is a fourth post in my Visualizing Risky Words series. You'll need to read starting from that link for context if you're just jumping in…
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 3
The DST changeover in the US has made today a fairly strange one, especially when combined with a very busy non-computing day yesterday. That strangeness manifest as a need to take the D3 heatmap idea mentioned in the previous post and…
Visualizing Risky Words — Part 2
This is a follow-up to my Visualizing Risky Words post. You'll need to read that for context if you're just jumping in now. Full R code for the generated images (which are pretty large) is at the…
Security Hobos
If you haven't viewed/read Wendy Nather's (@451Wendy) insightful Living Below The Security Poverty Line you really need to do that before continuing (we'll still be here when you get…
Follow up/Resources :: GRC-T18 – Data Analysis and Visualization for Security Professionals #RSAC
Many thanks to all who attended the talk @jayjacobs & I gave at RSA on Tuesday, February 26, 2013. It was really great to be able to talk to so many of you afterwards as…
R/netintel : Cross-check APT-1's IP list with AlienVault Reputation DB (+ some graphs/analysis)
Here's a quick example of couple additional ways to use the netintel R package I've been tinkering with. This could easily be done on the command line with other tools, but if you're already doing scripting/analysis with R, this provides a…
[REDUX] Reassessing Cyber Risks as a Security Strategy
I happened across Between Hype and Understatement: Reassessing Cyber Risks as a Security Strategy [PDF] when looking for something else at the Journal of Strategic Security site and thought it was a good enough primer to annoy everyone…
Visualizing Malicious Clusters & Outliers
So, I've had some quick, consecutive blog posts around this R package I'm working on, and this one is more of an answer to my own, self-identified question of " so what ?". As I was working on an importer for AlienValut's IP reputation…
Extended (Simple) ASN Graph Visualization Example [R to D3]
The small igraph visualization in the previous post shows the basics of what you can do with the BulkOrigin & BulkPeer functions, and I thought a larger example with some basic D3 tossed in might be even more…