The purpose of VIAssist is to provide cyber-security analysts with a fully functional visualization tool that supports analysts in pursuing their goals and objectives.  VIAssist is the result of three years of effort working with analysts and performing a cognitive task analysis of their work habits, needs, and repetitive tasks. Months spent working with analysts in operational environments lead to the creation of not just another visualization tool, but to VIAssist - a visualization framework.  VIAssist brings numerous commercial visualization tools together in a collaborative interactive interface. Designed around the analyst-user, VIAssist integrates these commercial tools under a dual monitor interface that is designed to support global situational awareness from one monitor and incident handling from a second monitor.  All VIAssist components visualize data from the same dataset. As the user manipulates the data from within VIAssist, changes and highlights are reflected simultaneously in each of the integrated tools.  Supporting this collaborative integration, VIAssist provides data pre-processing to filter and collate information prior to presentation. The combination of pre-processing, multiple views from differing visual tools, and a fully user-controlled framework make VIAssist a powerful ally for cyber-security analysts.

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