Applied Security Visualization

Preface

This book is about visualizing computer security data. The book shows you, step by step, how to visually analyze electronically generated security data. IT data must be gathered and analyzed for myriad reasons, including GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) and preventing/mitigating insider threats and perimeter threats. Log files, configuration files, and other IT security data must be analyzed and monitored to address a variety of use-cases. In contrast to handling textual data, visualization offers a new, more effective, and simpler approach to analyzing millions of log entries generated on a daily basis. Graphical representations help you immediately identify outliers, detect malicious activity, uncover misconfigurations and anomalies, ...