What is DAVIX?
DAVIX, a live CD for data analysis and visualization, brings the most important free tools for data processing and visualization to your desk. There is no hassle with installing an operating system or struggle to build the necessary tools to get started with visualization. You can completely dedicate your time to data analysis.
The DAVIX CD is based on SLAX and features broad out-of-the-box hardware support for graphic cards and network adapters. SLAX is based on Slackware and follows a modularized approach. Thus, the SLAX ISO image can easily be customized for various purposes. It can even be installed on USB sticks and provide you with mobile analysis capabilities.
The product is shipped with a comprehensive manual that gives you a quick start for all tools and provides information on how-to tailor DAVIX to your needs. All tools are accessible through the KDE start menu and accompanied with links to external manuals and tutorials. Therefore, all information to get you started with the tools is available at a click of a button.
DAVIX is also part of Raffael's book Applied Security Visualization which is published by Addison Wesley.
Download
Main Server
Mirrors
- Switzerland:ftp://mirror.switch.ch/mirror/DAVIX/davix-1.0.1-.iso.gz
- Germany: http://bastard.codenomad.com/davix/davix-1.0.1.iso.gz
- United States: http://www.noaccess.com/davix/davix-1.0.1.iso.gz
- United States: http://www.geekceo.com/davix/davix-1.0.1.iso.gz
- United States: http://depot.unixfoo.ch/davix/davix-1.0.1.iso.gz
MD5: 2e23f9ccc9e7c1dbb4e769751f4271c3
Size: 578'497'219 Bytes
Screenshots
The following screen shows DAVIX in action with the four analysis tools Wireshark, RT Graph 3D, EtherApe and InetVis:
Each tool and its accompanying material can be launched from the KDE start menu:
The comprehensive manual can be viewed in its entirety or individually by chapter:
Firefox features an extensive bookmark collection for online resources on visualization tools, libraries and applications.
Events
The following upcoming events will show DAVIX in action:
- June 25, 2008: First Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
- NEW: August 10, 2008: DefCon 2008 Workshop, Las Vegas, USA.
- September 15, 2008: vizSEC 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA.
External Publications / Press
DAVIX is part or is mentioned in following publications:
- Rückblick Blackhat / DEFCON 2008, Ivan Bütler & Martin Süss, Compass Security AG.
- Summary Blackhat / DEFCON 2008, Ivan Bütler & Martin Süss, Compass Security AG.
- DAVIX: Security Visualization, Daniel Miessler.
- ISC Diary.
- DAVIX - A Look Behind the Scene, Jan P. Monsch.
- Davix: Review, C. S. Lee (geek00L).
- Favs from the DAVIX beta test, Zach Lanier, n0where.org.
- Security Visualization - What you don't see can hurt you, Russ McRee, ISSA Journal June 2008.
- Applied Security Visualization, Raffael Marty, Addison Wesley Professional, ISBN 0321510100
Documentation / Mailing lists
The documentation is made available when the final DAVIX ISO image is released.
- davix-announce: Public announcements regarding DAVIX: new releases, call for participation, security announcements, links to 3rd party articles about DAVIX, etc.
- davix-support: Forum where users can discuss issues regarding DAVIX and get support from other users. This list is moderated to avoid spam messages.
