IEEE Workshops on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec'05)
Visual Correlation of Host Processes and Network Traffic
Minneapolis, Minnesota
October 26-October 26
ISBN: 0-7803-9477-1
Anomalous communication patterns are one of the leading indicators of computer system intrusions according to the system administrators we have interviewed. But a major problem is being able to correlate across the host/network boundary to see how network connections are related to running processes on a host. This paper introduces Portall, a visualization tool that gives system administrators a view of the communicating processes on the monitored machine correlated with the network activity in which the processes participate. Portall is a prototype of part of the Network Eye framework we have introduced in an earlier paper [1]. We discuss the Portall visualization, the supporting infrastructure it requires, and a formative usability study we conducted to obtain administrators? reactions to the tool.
Index Terms:
Computer Security, Information Visualization, System Administration
Citation:
Glenn A. Fink, Paul Muessig, Chris North, "Visual Correlation of Host Processes and Network Traffic," vizsec, pp.2, IEEE Workshops on Visualization for Computer Security (VizSec'05), 2005