Equilibrium Networks is in attendance at VisWeek for the SecVis talks, presenting a poster and talking to people. They’ve got a writeup of the event on their blog and they discuss the possibility of a “scientific theory of security”.
One thing I was pleasantly not surprised by is that the afternoon panel seemed to repudiate the notional equation “Security + Visualization = Science”. As I’ve commented here and there, there can be no truly scientific theory of security. Visualization doesn’t change this. The place where security and visualization can overlap with each other and with science is in the development of frameworks guided by scientific principles, both in architectural and cognitive aspects.
