Designing a mapping visualization to integrate physical and cyber domains

The amount of data easily available to researchers makes observing patterns easier than ever, but certain fields like cyber security face certain specific challenges in the way this data can be represented, due to the ever-increasing amount and frequency of important data. Additionally, there are few visualizations that map data from the cyber domain to the physical domain, making it difficult for researchers to bridge the gap between cyber and physical spheres. This study aims to address some of these deficiencies by creating a prototype that visualizes both the cyber domain and the physical domain, allowing researchers to determine how the data associated with both these domains are connected. The prototype is a real-time mapping visualization that contains several different components and layers, including weather, major transportation hubs, location searches for places and IP addresses, and social network searches and analyses. This project is a proof of concept work to show the different options that can be implemented in mapping software and is intended to be extensible, customizable, and easily learned. After describing my design, I discuss several different options for customization and growth of the system in the future.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Tubacki, Nicole

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Vijay Gadepally.

• Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

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• MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119703

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/119703