Wireless Cyber Assets Discovery Visualization

Kenneth Prole, John R. Goodall, Anita D. D'Amico, and Jason Kopylec. "Wireless Cyber Assets Discovery Visualization." Proceedings of the Workshop on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec), Springer LNCS, 2008, 136-143.

Abstract. As wireless networking has become near ubiquitous, the ability to
discover, identify, and locate mobile cyber assets over time is becoming
increasingly important to information security auditors, penetration testers, and
network administrators. We describe a new prototype called MeerCAT (Mobile
Cyber Asset Tracks) for visualizing wireless assets, including their location,
security attributes, and relationships. This paper highlights our latest iteration of
our prototype for visual analysis of wireless asset data, including user
requirements and the various coordinated visualizations.


Keywords: Visual analytics, wireless discovery, wireless security, coordinated
views, geographic visualization, information visualization, wardriving.

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