[R] Security Data extraction

[Saeed Abu Nimeh]

Subba Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Today I came across the R application and I will admit I am not a
> Statistician.  However, I think this application will be useful for me
> at work.  I am a Network/System Security Engineer trying to make sense
> of the huge security data I collect.  I am trying to visualize the
> traffic on our network.   The data in the packet header (captured by
> tcpdump) has all the information about the systems on the network.
> 
> There are lots of visual tools that can present the data in a meaningful
> way.   Each tool seems to have a different data format while most tools
> seem to understand CSV format?  How do I select the subset of the
> network data or syslog data and create a CSV file?

Sniff is a good tool: http://www.thedumbterminal.co.uk/software/sniff.shtml

> 
> How else can the R application help me present the security data in a
> meaningful way to the management?

Depends on what you want to present

> 
> Please excuse my ignorance.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Subba Rao
> 
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