CNSSA: A Comprehensive Network Security Situation Awareness System

Abstract

With tremendous attacks in the Internet, there is a high demand for network analysts to know about the situations of network security effectively. Traditional network security tools lack the capability of analyzing and assessing network security situations comprehensively. In this paper, we introduce a novel network situation awareness tool - CNSSA (Comprehensive Network Security Situation Awareness) - to perceive network security situations comprehensively. Based on the fusion of network information, CNSSA makes a quantitative assessment on the situations of network security. It visualizes the situations of network security in its multiple and various views, so that network analysts can know about the situations of network security easily and comprehensively. The case studies demonstrate how CNSSA can be deployed into a real network and how CNSSA can effectively comprehend the situation changes of network security in real time.