A Survey on Immersive Cyber Situational Awareness Systems
Hussain Ahmad, Faheem Ullah, Rehan Jafri

TL;DR
This survey comprehensively reviews immersive cyber situational awareness systems, highlighting visualization and interaction techniques, evaluation methods, and proposing a framework for future research and industrial application.
Contribution
It systematically classifies existing ICSA systems, introduces a reference framework, and identifies future research directions and industrial implications.
Findings
Identified key visualization and interaction techniques for ICSA.
Proposed a framework linking techniques to levels of cyber SA.
Analyzed industrial implications for cybersecurity operations.
Abstract
Cyber situational awareness systems are increasingly used for creating cyber common operating pictures for cybersecurity analysis and education. However, these systems face data occlusion and convolution issues due to the burgeoning complexity, dimensionality, and heterogeneity of cybersecurity data, which damages cyber Situational Awareness (SA) of end-users. Moreover, conventional ways of human-computer interactions, such as mouse and keyboard, increase the mental effort and cognitive load of cybersecurity practitioners, when analyzing cyber situations of large-scale infrastructures. Therefore, immersive technologies, such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and mixed reality, are employed in the cybersecurity realm to create intuitive, engaging, and interactive cyber common operating pictures. The Immersive Cyber Situational Awareness (ICSA) systems provide several unique…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAnomaly Detection Techniques and Applications · Big Data Technologies and Applications · Military Defense Systems Analysis
