Cyber intrusion AR software wins patent

Ingalls Information Security (IIS) has received a patent for Viewpoint, a network security monitoring and correlation system.

The system provides a three-dimensional (3D) visualisation of network traffic overlaid with security alerts and other relevant discrete data. It allows security professionals to see and interact with data spatially, eliminating the need to scroll through massive spreadsheets of technical data.

There’s a big problem in cybersecurity: there is too much data and not enough people to analyse it. Current cybersecurity tools all present information the same way — as a spreadsheet with rows and rows of information that must be individually read, considered and added to the analyst’s mental model of what is being investigated, according to IIS.

“It’s like trying to watch a baseball game through a drinking straw. You never see the whole picture,” said Jason Ingalls, IIS Chief Executive Officer.

“That’s why we built Viewpoint: to visualise every actor and every event in the cyberspace that we have data for, so we can understand what’s going on and take action a lot faster. We can literally walk through a network node by node to trace an event all the way back to its source.”

Viewpoint was designed for mission defence teams, cyber protection teams (CPTs), incident responders (IR), security operations centres (SOC), and those in virtual and augmented reality (VR/AR) cyber support who must be able to quickly identify attacks through timely analysis of data to effectively protect critical infrastructure.

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