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Network Situational Awareness: Sonification and Visualization in the Cyber Battlespace

Network Situational Awareness: Sonification and Visualization in the Cyber Battlespace

Tom Fairfax, Christopher Laing, Paul Vickers
Copyright: © 2015 |Pages: 16
ISBN13: 9781466663244|ISBN10: 1466663243|EISBN13: 9781466663251
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6324-4.ch021
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Fairfax, Tom, et al. "Network Situational Awareness: Sonification and Visualization in the Cyber Battlespace." Handbook of Research on Digital Crime, Cyberspace Security, and Information Assurance, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha and Irene Maria Portela, IGI Global, 2015, pp. 334-349. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6324-4.ch021

APA

Fairfax, T., Laing, C., & Vickers, P. (2015). Network Situational Awareness: Sonification and Visualization in the Cyber Battlespace. In M. Cruz-Cunha & I. Portela (Eds.), Handbook of Research on Digital Crime, Cyberspace Security, and Information Assurance (pp. 334-349). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6324-4.ch021

Chicago

Fairfax, Tom, Christopher Laing, and Paul Vickers. "Network Situational Awareness: Sonification and Visualization in the Cyber Battlespace." In Handbook of Research on Digital Crime, Cyberspace Security, and Information Assurance, edited by Maria Manuela Cruz-Cunha and Irene Maria Portela, 334-349. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2015. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-6324-4.ch021

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Abstract

This chapter treats computer networks as a cyber warfighting domain in which the maintenance of situational awareness is impaired by increasing traffic volumes and the lack of immediate sensory perception. Sonification (the use of non-speech audio for communicating information) is proposed as a viable means of monitoring a network in real time and a research agenda employing the sonification of a network's self-organized criticality within a context-aware affective computing scenario is given. The chapter views a computer network as a cyber battlespace with a particular operations spectrum and dynamics. Increasing network traffic volumes are interfering with the ability to present real-time intelligence about a network and so suggestions are made for how the context of a network might be used to help construct intelligent information infrastructures. Such a system would use affective computing principles to sonify emergent properties (such as self-organized criticality) of network traffic and behaviour to provide effective real-time situational awareness.

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