The 2020 IEEE VAST Challenge asks participants to apply visual analytics to solve three mini-challenges to help a world impacted by a worldwide cyber event.
Our team "Night Parrot" examined a cyber think-tank - Center for Global Cyber Strategy (CGCS) - records and identified groups who most closely resemble the identified profile.
15 July 2020
Given curated data from several White-hat hackers as well as the Template of malicious patterns, our team compared and contrasted the Template and five Suspect networks. After narrowing down suspects with higher-level visuals, the flow of procurement transactions over time was presented using animated plots.
- Heatmap
- Network layouts
- tSNE
- Visuals of weight animated across time
- Top 10 Cumulative Weight across Time within Procurement
- Cumulative Sum of Procurement Weight across Time
- Challenge homepage: https://vast-challenge.github.io/2020/index.html
- Mini-Challenge 1 (Graph Analysis): https://vast-challenge.github.io/2020/MC1.html
- Team repo homepage: https://github.com/nspyrison/VAST_Challenge_2020/