GCN Newsletter gcn com blogs cybereye 2018 08 cyberwar-map aspx CyberEye Blog archive CyberWar Map visualizes global threats Anyone who has ever tried to track a subject by storing articles and reports in file cabinets — yes I’m that old —is bound to get a rush of serotonin upon launching George Washington University’s new CyberWar Map Actually younger folks who appreciate data visualization will probably get a pretty good kick too The CyberWar Map a project of GWU’s National Security Archive offers an initial screen that displays what looks like the missile-tracking screens in the movie War Games OK I promise to drop the allusions to pre-internet technologies… 1 3 Click on the Iranian flag for example and the panel to the left will offer document summaries about that nation’s cyber capabilities and programs 2 3 Follow the line from the Iran node outward to see what actor or organization was behind a specific cyber event Follow to the next node to learn the name of the event and who its targets were At each node a click will summon a list of available related documents summaries Clicking on the Iran node for example brought up among other summaries a joint statement by James R Clapper Marcel Lettre and Adm Michael S Rogers to the Senate Armed Services Committee titled Foreign Cyber Threats to the United States Clicking on the title brought up the report itself in a new browser tab In short the map serves as a visual index and access point to the National Security Archives’ extensive collection of Cyber Vault documents In some cases such as when where the documents are copyrighted clicking on a hyperlink will lead to an external source As the projects creators note “The CyberWar Map is a living research aid documents and nodes will be added on a regular basis The complexity of the field makes it increasingly challenging to conceptualize a “bird’s eye view” of the cyber-battlefield therefore the topic lends itself especially well to a dynamic graphic representation ” Posted by Patrick Marshall on Aug 31 2018 at 10 11 AM 3 3