IMoViS: A System for Mobile Visualization of Intrusion Detection Data

Intrusion detection applications often produce large amount of data. The visualization of this information is a key task in order to allow the user to effectively detect attacks and intrusions. Information visualization is an important sub-discipline within the field of scientific visualization and focuses on visual mechanisms designed to communicate clearly to the user the structure of information and to facilitate the access to large data repositories. Information visualization helps people in dealing with all this information by taking advantage of the visual perception capabilities of the human being. By presenting the information in a more graphically oriented fashion, it is possible for the human brain to take advantage of its perceptual system in the initial information acquiring, rather than immediately relying entirely on the cognitive system. Some of the most important papers in the field are collected in a book. Information visualization algorithms require merging of data visualization methods, computer graphics solutions, and graphical interface design.