Brooery: a graphical environment for analysis of security-relevant network activity

  • Authors:
  • Christian Kreibich

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, Cambridge, UK

  • Venue:
  • ATEC '05 Proceedings of the annual conference on USENIX Annual Technical Conference
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

We present the design and implementation of the Brooery, a system for graphical analysis of network activity reported by instances of the Bro intrusion detection system. It supports multiple input streams and provides a web-based graphical user interface to allow the user to analyze the reported activity. The Brooery understands activity at different abstraction levels, allows for quick drill-down searches by focusing on contextuality when moving through the history of events, and provides user-friendly and semantically strong hierarchical filtering to reduce the amount of information presented.