[R] Security Data extraction

[Subba Rao]

Saeed Abu Nimeh wrote:
> 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
>   

Thank you for pointing out this tool.  This one is a good start.

Subba Rao