Multiple Coordinated Views for Network Attack Graphs

While efficient graph-based representations have been developed for modeling combinations of low-level network attacks, relatively little attention has been paid to effective techniques for visualizing such attack graphs. This paper describes a number of new attack graph visualization techniques, each having certain desirable properties and offering different perspectives for solving different kinds of problems. Moreover, the techniques we describe can be applied not only separately, but can also be combined into coordinated attack graph views. We apply improved visual clustering to previously described network protection domains (attack graph cliques), which reduces graph complexity and makes the overall attack flow easier to understand. We also visualize the attack graph adjacency matrix, which shows patterns of network attack while avoiding the clutter usually associated with drawing large graphs. We show how the attack graph adjacency matrix concisely conveys the impact of network...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: VIZSEC
• Authors: Steven Noel, Michael Jacobs, Pramod Kalapa, Sushil Jajodia
• Keywords: Attack Graph, Attack Graph Adjacency, Attack Graph Visualization, VIZSEC 2005