Chapter 14. VISUALIZING IPTABLES LOGS
Visualizing security data is becoming increasingly important in today's threat environment on the open Internet. Security devices—from intrusion detection systems to firewalls—generate huge amounts of event data as they deal with attacks from all corners of the globe. Making sense of this vast amount of data is a tremendous challenge. Graphical representations of security data allow administrators to quickly see emerging trends and unusual activity that would be difficult to detect without dedicated code. That is, a graph is effective at conveying context and change because the human eye can quickly discern relationships that are otherwise hard to see.
This chapter explores the usage of psad with the Gnuplot ...
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