Systematic Literature Review on Cyber Situational Awareness Visualizations
Liuyue Jiang, Asangi Jayatilaka, Mehwish Nasim, Marthie Grobler,, Mansooreh Zahedi, M. Ali Babar

TL;DR
This systematic review analyzes 54 studies on cyber situational awareness visualizations, highlighting current practices, gaps, and future research directions to improve organizational cybersecurity understanding.
Contribution
It provides a comprehensive analysis of existing CSA visualization techniques, stakeholder focus, and identifies gaps in visualization coverage and maturity.
Findings
Most visualizations target operational staff
Lack of visualizations for managers and decision makers
Focus mainly on threat information, less on impact and response
Abstract
The dynamics of cyber threats are increasingly complex, making it more challenging than ever for organizations to obtain in-depth insights into their cyber security status. Therefore, organizations rely on Cyber Situational Awareness (CSA) to support them in better understanding the threats and associated impacts of cyber events. Due to the heterogeneity and complexity of cyber security data, often with multidimensional attributes, sophisticated visualization techniques are needed to achieve CSA. However, there have been no previous attempts to systematically review and analyze the scientific literature on CSA visualizations. In this paper, we systematically select and review 54 publications that discuss visualizations to support CSA. We extract data from these papers to identify key stakeholders, information types, data sources, and visualization techniques. Furthermore, we analyze the…
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TopicsData Visualization and Analytics · Complex Network Analysis Techniques · Mental Health Research Topics
