Effective Visualization of File System Access-Control
| Title | Effective Visualization of File System Access-Control |
| Publication Type | Book Chapters |
| Year of Publication | 2008 |
| Authors | Heitzmann A, Palazzi B, Papamanthou C, Tamassia R |
| Editor | Goodall JR, Conti G, Ma K-L |
| Book Title | Visualization for Computer Security |
| Series Title | Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Pagination | 18 - 25 |
| Publisher | Springer Berlin Heidelberg |
| ISBN Number | 978-3-540-85931-4, 978-3-540-85933-8 |
| Keywords | Computer Communication Networks, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, data mining and knowledge discovery, Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory, Visualization |
| Abstract | In this paper, we present a visual representation of access control permissions in a standard hierarchical file system. Our visualization of file permissions leverages treemaps, a popular graphical representation of hierarchical data. In particular, we present a visualization of access control for the NTFS file system that can help a non-expert user understand and manipulate file system permissions in a simple and effective way. While our examples are based on NTFS, our approach can be used for many other hierarchical file systems as well. |
| URL | http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85933-8_2 |