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The 8th annual International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec) is in Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Mellon University this June, and they’ve just issued their Call for Papers.

The annual symposium joins academic, government, and industry leaders from around the globe to share the latest developments and applications of visualization techniques to address current cyber security challenges. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit technical papers and panel session proposals that offer a novel contribution to security visualization. Papers are encouraged on new visualization technologies and methods that have been applied and demonstrated to be useful in a range of security domains including, but not limited to, computer forensics, risk assessment, cryptography, malware analysis, and situational awareness.

Deadline for full papers is April 1 (No April Fool’s jokes please), and panels is April 15th.

via PR-USA.net – VizSec2011 Announces Call for Papers.

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The 7th Inernational Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security, better known as VizSec, has published their details of the upcoming event and this year’s focus on “effective visual interfaces”.

This year our focus is on understanding what makes effective visual interfaces for different cyber security tasks. This involves both advancing our understanding of what cyber security tasks are, and improving our understanding of what it means for a security visualization to be effective. Cyber security visualization tasks cover a wide range, including (but not limited to) obtaining situational awareness in massive datasets; incorporating data from disparate sources during incident handling; producing actionable reports for others; modeling the behavior of systems; and predicting future events.

Submission guidelines are on their site.

via VizSec 2010.

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One of the best resources for innovations in the field of visualization for network security is the Annual VizSec Workshop. This year the VizSec Workshop will be held in Atlantic City, NJ along with the Visualization conference and the InfoVis conference. Click here for more details about the workshop – VisSec 2009.

Before I discuss some innovative visualizations for network security, let me point out that there are two excellent books written by visualization for network security experts. Here they are:

Security Data Visualization: Graphical Techniques for Network Analysis by Greg Conti

Security Data Visualization is a well-researched and richly illustrated introduction to the field. Greg Conti, creator of the network and security visualization tool RUMINT, shows you how to graph and display network data using a variety of tools so that you can understand complex datasets at a glance. And once you’ve seen what a network attack looks like, you’ll have a better understanding of its low-level behavior–like how vulnerabilities are exploited and how worms and viruses propagate.

Applied Security Visualization by Raffy Marty (who has a security visualization blog at http://secviz.org).

In Applied Security Visualization, leading network security visualization expert Raffael Marty introduces all the concepts, techniques, and tools you need to use visualization on your network. You’ll learn how to identify and utilize the right data sources, then transform your data into visuals that reveal what you really need to know. Next, Marty shows how to use visualization to perform broad network security analyses, assess specific threats, and even improve business compliance.

Read after the break for some other excellent sources of innovations in the network security visualization field:

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