Adapting level of detail in user interfaces for Cybersecurity operations
Bibliographic record
Abstract
As cybersecurity threats increasingly appear in news headlines, the security industry continues to build state of the art firewall and intrusion detection systems for monitoring activities in complex cyber networks. These systems generate millions of log files and continuous alerts. In order to make sense of cyber data, cyber security and system administrators review and analyze millions of logs using highly summarized views and manual cycles of click-intensive details-on-demand. This is laborious, induces cognitive overload, and is prone to errors resulting in important information and impacts not being seen when most needed. Our research focus is on developing “FocalPoint” a system that provides Adaptive Level of Detail (LOD) in user interfaces for cybersecurity operations. FocalPoint is a recommender system tailored for complex network information structures that reasons about contextual information associated with the network, user tasks, and cognitive load. This facilitates tuning cyber visualization displays thereby improving user performance in perception, comprehension and projection of current Cybersecurity Situational Awareness (Cyber SA). For cyber analysts, having the right information, in context, when most needed without cognitive overload could lead to effective decision making in cyber operations. We provide a use case scenario for FocalPoint with an in-progress prototype and highlight various challenges and potential considerations for building an effective adaptive system.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.019 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.008 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".