Visualizing Cyber Intrusions

Paul Rosenzweig
Friday, March 15, 2013, 4:59 PM
I was really struck by Raffa's post last week on how to visualize Senator Paul's drone filibuster.  It reminded me of the truth I learned long ago in a class taught by Ed Tufte -- that a good picture with data is usually worth 100o words of prose.  With that in mind, on a pleasant Friday afternoon, I offer the following two links to great visualizations of cyber intrusions.  Both are real time maps of cyber intrusions captured globally in honey pots.  Enjoy the co

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I was really struck by Raffa's post last week on how to visualize Senator Paul's drone filibuster.  It reminded me of the truth I learned long ago in a class taught by Ed Tufte -- that a good picture with data is usually worth 100o words of prose.  With that in mind, on a pleasant Friday afternoon, I offer the following two links to great visualizations of cyber intrusions.  Both are real time maps of cyber intrusions captured globally in honey pots.  Enjoy the colors! Honey Net The T-Mobile Honey Map PS -- Proving that cybersecurity policy experience does not mean facility with blogger, I tried for 20 minutes to get the maps to load directly here, without success.  Sigh.

Paul Rosenzweig is the founder of Red Branch Consulting PLLC, a homeland security consulting company and a Senior Advisor to The Chertoff Group. Mr. Rosenzweig formerly served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy in the Department of Homeland Security. He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at George Washington University, a Senior Fellow in the Tech, Law & Security program at American University, and a Board Member of the Journal of National Security Law and Policy.

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