Visualization techniques in attack graphs
Ashok Varikuti · K-State Research Exchange (Kansas State University) · 2009
Attack graphs present a visual representation of all the potential vulnerabilities and attack paths in a network.They act as a vital security tool in finding the critical attack paths in the enterprise wide networks.Generated attack graphs for complex networks present thousands of attack paths to visualize and represent to the end user.Enhancing the visualization of attack graphs by adding user interactivity will greatly improve in analyzing attack graphs and identifying the critical attack paths in the enterprise network.The layout of the attack graph can be adjusted to represent the layout of the real world enterprise network.Adding user interactivity to attack graphs is done using Prefuse, a software framework written in Java for information visualization.Prefuse is flexible and got the ability to render large