Visual fusion of multi-source network security data based on labelled treemap. (2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Zhang, Sheng; Shi, Ronghua
• Is Part Of: International journal of networking and virtual organisations. Volume 16:Number 3(2016)
• Page Start: 265
• Page End: 282
• Publication Date: 2016
• Subjects: network security visualisation -- multi-source security data -- visual fusion -- labelled treemaps -- time series -- feature extraction; Computer networks -- Periodicals; Information networks -- Periodicals; Virtual corporations -- Periodicals; Electronic commerce -- Periodicals; Management information systems -- Periodicals; Management -- Data processing -- Periodicals; 004.65
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1470-9503

Abstract

The security data generated in today's network are large-scaled, heterogeneous, and rapidly changing. As a result, the traditional methods fail to meet the needs of analysis on the security data. This paper proposes labelled treemap to visually fuse the multi-source network security logs. Firstly, data sources are classified at their collecting locations, and the objects of security data are taken from three different layers. Secondly, in order to solve the problem of insufficient attribute dimension of treemap, the Glyph is adopted to broaden the representation scope, which can make fusion at data-level on labelled treemap. Finally, by choosing the appropriate feature extraction algorithm for the multi-source data, fusion at feature-level is conducted on time-series diagrams, which can represent the network security situation. The analyses of the network security datasets from VAST Challenge 2013 prove this method having substantial advantages for network analysts to better understand network security situation, identify anomalies, discover attack pattern and remove the false positives, etc.