Songs of cyberspace: an update on sonifications of network traffic to support situational awareness

Ballora, Mark; Giacobe, Nicklaus A.; Hall, David L.

doi:10.1117/12.883443

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“…Gilfix and Crouch's [8] PEEP system is an early network sonification example but Ballora et al [9,10,11] developed the idea to address situational awareness. Using an auditory model of the network packet space they produced a "nuanced soundscape in which unexpected patterns can emerge for experienced listeners".…”

Section: B Sonification For Network Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context informed intelligent information infrastructures for better situational awareness

Laing¹,

Vickers

2015

2015 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA)

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In this multi-disciplinary project, we intend to explore the advantages of an information fusion system in which the infrastructure finds new ways to reflect upon its own state and new ways to express this state that provides a good fit to human communication and cognition processes. This interplay should then generate a better and more responsive humancomputer symbiosis. The outcomes of this project will help to develop context and content aware networks that are better able to extract meaning and understanding from network data and behaviour.

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Section: B Sonification For Network Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

Context informed intelligent information infrastructures for better situational awareness

Laing¹,

Vickers

2015

2015 International Conference on Cyber Situational Awareness, Data Analytics and Assessment (CyberSA)

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“…While the benefits of data visualization are well known, the field of sonification is emerging as a new tool for understanding data by converting it into arrangements of sound that use acoustic properties such as pitch and timbre [23] in order to leverage the human auditory system in addition to conventional visual analytics. This technique has shown great promise in areas ranging from network security analysis [23] to analyzing the interactions of brain function, memory, and music [24].…”

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“…This technique has shown great promise in areas ranging from network security analysis [23] to analyzing the interactions of brain function, memory, and music [24]. Sonification has also been used in medical anesthesiology for multi-sensory integration using visual and sound qualities [25].…”

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confidence: 99%

Conserving analyst attention units: use of multi-agent software and CEP methods to assist information analysis

2013

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Although the capability of computer-based artificial intelligence techniques for decision-making and situational awareness has seen notable improvement over the last several decades, the current state-of-the-art still falls short of creating computer systems capable of autonomously making complex decisions and judgments in many domains where data is nuanced and accountability is high. However, there is a great deal of potential for hybrid systems in which software applications augment human capabilities by focusing the analyst's attention to relevant information elements based on both a priori knowledge of the analyst's goals and the processing/correlation of a series of data streams too numerous and heterogeneous for the analyst to digest without assistance.Researchers at Penn State University are exploring ways in which an information framework influenced by Klein's (Recognition Primed Decision) RPD model, Endsley's model of situational awareness, and the Joint Directors of Laboratories (JDL) data fusion process model can be implemented through a novel combination of Complex Event Processing (CEP) and Multi-Agent Software (MAS). Though originally designed for stock market and financial applications, the high performance data-driven nature of CEP techniques provide a natural compliment to the proven capabilities of MAS systems for modeling naturalistic decision-making, performing process adjudication, and optimizing networked processing and cognition via the use of "mobile agents." This paper addresses the challenges and opportunities of such a framework for augmenting human observational capability as well as enabling the ability to perform collaborative context-aware reasoning in both human teams and hybrid human / software agent teams.

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“…Prior work has applied sonification in security-monitoring tasks. Axon et al surveyed existing articles [4], highlighting sonification systems designed for network-attack detection [5], [24], [25], [26], [6], [27], [28]. The utility of sonification for SOCs is proposed, based on the challenges SOCs face, and evidence of the potential benefits of sonification [4].…”

Section: Sonification For Network-security Monitoringmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Articles exploring the sonification of network-security data indicate its promise as a technique for attack detection [4], [5], [6], improved methods for which are critical to SOCs. Furthermore, sonification is an effective medium for peripheral monitoring of information as a non-primary task [7].…”

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Sonification in Security Operations Centres: What do Security Practitioners Think?

Axon¹,

AlAhmadi²,

Nurse³

et al. 2018

Proceedings 2018 Workshop on Usable Security

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Abstract-In Security Operations Centres (SOCs) security practitioners work using a range of tools to detect and mitigate malicious computer-network activity. Sonification, in which data is represented as sound, is said to have potential as an approach to addressing some of the unique challenges faced by SOCs. For example, sonification has been shown to enable peripheral monitoring of processes, which could aid practitioners multitasking in busy SOCs. The perspectives of security practitioners on incorporating sonification into their actual working environments have not yet been examined, however. The aim of this paper therefore is to address this gap by exploring attitudes to using sonification in SOCs. We report on the results of a study consisting of an online survey (N=20) and interviews (N=21) with security practitioners working in a range of different SOCs. Our contribution is a refined appreciation of the contexts in which sonification could aid in SOC working practice, and an understanding of the areas in which sonification may not be beneficial or may even be problematic. We also analyse the critical requirements for the design of sonification systems and their integration into the SOC setting. Our findings clarify insights into the potential benefits and challenges of introducing sonification to support work in this vital security-monitoring environment.

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Songs of cyberspace: an update on sonifications of network traffic to support situational awareness

Cited by 24 publications

References 13 publications

Context informed intelligent information infrastructures for better situational awareness

Context informed intelligent information infrastructures for better situational awareness

Conserving analyst attention units: use of multi-agent software and CEP methods to assist information analysis

Sonification in Security Operations Centres: What do Security Practitioners Think?

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