VIAssist Design Overview
General introduction to VIAssist capabilities and design considerations
Fine-tuning Visualization Controls
VIAssist visualization components are designed to interact with one another based on analyst inputs. An analyst’s controls over VIAssist visualizations consist of contextual menus, various filtering and highlighting capabilities, fetching data, or directly selecting data points within a view. Filtering or highlighting interactions among VIAssist visualization components are a result from user interactions.
Visualizations are helpful, but only if they can be made to obey the investigative instincts of the analyst. VIAssist includes numerous controls to facilitate this process -- indeed, this is where the greatest productivity gains are to be realized.
VIAssist permits fine-tuning of numerous aspects of visualization, including:
- Display data filtering (add, subtract filter fields)
- Data highlighting
- Collaboration (e.g., hot IP lists, diaries, annotations)
- Context-sensitive menu options, including
- port lookup
- WhoIS search for an IP address
- Drill-in
- Personalized IP hostlisting
- Annotation of specific data points
- Tools for arranging views, including
- view toggling
- view pinning
- view docking
- Log view tools
