Showing posts with label firewall. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firewall. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Pretty graphs for the malware detection (ftw?)

Security data visualization is definitely a promising and awesome way to look at your logs / ids alerts / firewall rules. I was recently introduced to secviz, a site showcasing the various graphing and plotting tools freely available to help visualize un-eye-popping log or plaintext data. Of particular interest to me was:

  • How many times have you looked at a firewall rule set and collapse in anticipated mental exhaustion? Wouldn't it be much nicer if someone just drew a picture of that rats nest? Enter Ruined which makes prettyful things like this:




  • Monitoring server load sounds like a job for another server to do (agh infinite loop!) but with a couple RGB values and some squiggly math, you can produce load reports that look like this!




Take a peek at secviz and get inspired. What else would you make pretty pictures of?