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Cyber situational awareness: from geographical alerts to high-level management

Authors: Marco Angelini, Giuseppe Santucci

Published in: Journal of Visualization | Issue 3/2017

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This paper focuses on cyber situational awareness and describes a visual analytics solution for monitoring and putting in tight relation data from network level with the organization business. The goal of the proposed solution is to make different security profiles (network security officer, network security manager, and financial security manager) aware of the actual network state (e.g., risk and attack progress) and the impact it actually has on the business tasks, making clear the relationships that exist between the network level and the business level. The proposed solution is instantiated on the ACEA infrastructure, the Italian company that provides power and water purification services to cities in central Italy (millions of end users).

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Title: Cyber situational awareness: from geographical alerts to high-level management
Authors: Marco Angelini
Giuseppe Santucci
Publication date: 12-07-2016
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Journal of Visualization / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 1343-8875
Electronic ISSN: 1875-8975
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12650-016-0377-3

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