From A to Z: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation

Eric Li; Jeroen Barendse; Frederic Brodbeck; Axel Tanner

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46263-9_7

From A to Z: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation

Eric Li, Jeroen Barendse, Frederic Brodbeck, Axel Tanner

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Security visualisation is a very difficult problem due to its inherent need to represent complexity and to be flexible for a wide range of applications. As a result, many current approaches are not particularly effective. This paper presents several novel approaches for visualising information security threats which aim to create a flexible and effective basis for creating semantically rich threat visualisation diagrams. By presenting generalised approaches, these ideas can be applied to a wide variety of situations, as demonstrated in two specific visualisations: one for visualising attack trees, the other for visualising attack graphs. It concludes by discussing future work and introducing a novel exploration of attack models.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Graphical Models for Security
Subtitle of host publication	Third International Workshop, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers
Editors	Barbara Kordy, Mathias Ekstedt, Dong Seong Kim
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Springer
Pages	102-118
Number of pages	17
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-319-46263-9
ISBN (Print)	978-3-319-46262-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46263-9_7
Publication status	Published - 2016
Event	3rd International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2016 - Lisbon, Portugal Duration: 27 Jun 2016 → 27 Jun 2016 Conference number: 3

Publication series

Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Volume	9987
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Workshop

Workshop	3rd International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2016
Abbreviated title	GraMSec
Country	Portugal
City	Lisbon
Period	27/06/16 → 27/06/16

Keywords

EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/318003
EC Grant Agreement nr.: FP7/2007-2013
IR-101550
METIS-318532
EWI-27244

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Li, E., Barendse, J., Brodbeck, F., & Tanner, A. (2016). From A to Z: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation. In B. Kordy, M. Ekstedt, & D. S. Kim (Eds.), Graphical Models for Security: Third International Workshop, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 102-118). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9987). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46263-9_7

Li, Eric ; Barendse, Jeroen ; Brodbeck, Frederic ; Tanner, Axel. / From A to Z : Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation. Graphical Models for Security: Third International Workshop, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. editor / Barbara Kordy ; Mathias Ekstedt ; Dong Seong Kim. Cham : Springer, 2016. pp. 102-118 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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Li, E, Barendse, J, Brodbeck, F & Tanner, A 2016, From A to Z: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation. in B Kordy, M Ekstedt & DS Kim (eds), Graphical Models for Security: Third International Workshop, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 9987, Springer, Cham, pp. 102-118, 3rd International Workshop on Graphical Models for Security, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, 27/06/16. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46263-9_7

From A to Z : Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation. / Li, Eric; Barendse, Jeroen; Brodbeck, Frederic; Tanner, Axel.

Graphical Models for Security: Third International Workshop, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. ed. / Barbara Kordy; Mathias Ekstedt; Dong Seong Kim. Cham : Springer, 2016. p. 102-118 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Vol. 9987).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Li E, Barendse J, Brodbeck F, Tanner A. From A to Z: Developing a Visual Vocabulary for Information Security Threat Visualisation. In Kordy B, Ekstedt M, Kim DS, editors, Graphical Models for Security: Third International Workshop, GraMSec 2016, Lisbon, Portugal, June 27, 2016, Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer. 2016. p. 102-118. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-46263-9_7