Big Data and Cyber Security: A Visual Analytics Perspective

With organisations and governments significantly investing in cyber defenses, there is an urgent need to develop tools and technologies to help security professionals understand cyber security within their application domains. A critical aspect of this is to develop and maintain situation awareness of security aspects within cyber infrastructures. Visual analytics provide support to security professionals to help understand evolving situations and the overall status of systems, particularly when dealing with large volumes of data. This chapter explores situation awareness in cyber security in more detail, aligning design recommendations for visual analytics to assist security professionals with progressive levels of situation awareness.