VizSec 2008 Program : September 15, 2008
All sessions are at the Tang Center on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Wireless internet connections will be available.
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast and Registration (Ting Foyer in Tang Center) |
| 8:40 AM | Welcome |
| 8:50 AM | Keynote: Ben Shneiderman Information Forensics: Harnessing Visualization to Support Discovery |
| 9:50 - 10:50 AM | Session 1: Forensic and System-level Analysis |
| Greg Conti, Erik Dean, Matthew Sinda and Benjamin Sangster
Visual Reverse Engineering of Binary and Data Files |
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| Alexander Heitzmann, Bernardo Palazzi, Charalampos Papamanthou and Roberto Tamassia
Effective Visualization of File System Access-Control |
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| Ying Xia, Kevin Fairbanks and Henry Owen
Visual Analysis of Program Flows with Propagation |
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| Moses Schwartz and Lorie Liebrock
A Term Distribution Visualization Approach to Digital Forensic String Search |
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| 10:50 AM | Morning Break |
| 11:15 - 12:05 AM | Session 2: Attack Graphs |
| Leevar Williams, Richard Lippmann and Kyle Ingols
GARNET: A Graphical Attack Graph and Reachability Network Evaluation Tool |
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| Scott O'Hare, Kenneth Prole and Steven Noel
A Graph-Theoretic Visualization Approach To Network Risk Analysis |
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| John Homer, Xinming Ou, Ashok Varikuti and Miles McQueen
Improving Attack Graph Visualization through Data Reduction and Attack Grouping |
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| 12:05 AM | Lunch (MIT Faculty Club) |
| 1:25 - 1:45 PM | Session 3: Visualization Design and User Requirement Studies |
| TJ Jankun-Kelly, Josh Franck, David Wilson, Jeffrey Carver, David Dampier and Edward Swan
Show Me How You See: Lessons from Studying Computer Forensics Experts for Visualization |
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| Xiaoyuan Suo, Ying Zhu and Scott Owen
A Task Centered Framework for Computer Security Data Visualization |
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| 1:45 PM | Invited Talk: Raffael Marty and Jan Monsch
DAVIX - Data analysis and visualization Live CD |
| 2:05 - 3:05 PM | Session 4: Network Monitoring, Management and Analysis |
| James Shearer, Kwan-Liu Ma and Toby Kohlenberg
BGPeep: An IP-space Centered View for Internet Routing Data |
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| Fabian Fischer, Florian Mansmann, Daniel A. Keim, Stephan Pietzko and Marcel Waldvogel
Large-scale Network Monitoring for Visual Analysis of Attacks |
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| Ryan Blue, Cody Dunne, Adam Fuchs, Kyle King and Aaron Schulman
Visualizing Real-Time Network Resource Usage |
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| Kenneth Prole, John R. Goodall, Anita D'Amico and Jason Kopylec
Wireless Cyber Assets Discovery Visualization |
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| 3:05 PM | Afternoon Break |
| 3:30 PM | Panel: Toby Kohlenberg, Raffy Marty, Rich Johnson, Lurene Grenier, Ron Dilley
The Need for Applied Visualization in Information Security Today |
| 4:20 - 4:50 PM | Session 5: Network Security Analysis |
| Pavel Minarik and Tomas Dymacek
NetFlow Data Visualization Based on Graphs |
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| Sergey Bratus, Axel Hansen, Fabio Pellacini and Anna Shubina
Backhoe, a packet trace and log browser |
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| Jeff Janies
Existence Plots: A Low-Resolution Time Series for Port Behavior Analysis |
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| 4:50 - 5:30 PM | Session 6: Security Event Monitoring and Analysis |
| Shahrulniza Musa and David Parish
Using Time Series 3D AlertGraph and False Alert Classification to Analyse Snort Alerts |
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| Grant Vandenberghe
Network Traffic Exploration Application: A Tool To Assess, Visualize and Analyze Network Security Events |
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| 5:30 - 8:00 PM | Joint Catered Poster Session with RAID at the Tang Center
Posters Scott Evans, Richard Bejtlich, Stephen Markham, Jeremy Impson and Eric Steinbrecher: Towards Zero-Day Attack Detection through Intelligent Icon Visualization of MDL Model Proximity Glenn Fink, Jereme Haack, Wendy Maiden and Errin Fulp: Cooperative Infrastructure Defense Demos Dean Pierce: Seeds of Contempt Raffael Marty and Jan Monsch: Davix Kenneth Prole: MeerCAT Alexander Heitzmann and Bernardo Palazzi: TrACE: A Tool for Effective Visualization of File System Access-Control |



