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.
Contact
Feedback? Comments? Questions? Ideas? Email us!
Download
Currently, the latest version is: 1.0.1, published in September 2008.
To download DAVIX, please log in first! You will get the download links here if you do so!
Visualization Tools
The following is a list of all the visualization tools installed on DAVIX distribution:
- AfterGlow
- TreeMap
- Mondrian
- Parvis
- LGL
- R Project
- InteVis
- EtherApe
- GGobi
- Tulip
- Cytoscape
- GUESS
- RT3DG
- Walrus
- Dottty and lneato
- GraphViz
- glTail
- Shoki
- TimeSearcher
- TNV
- NVisionIP
- Rumint
- MRTG/RRD
- GnuPlot
- Ploticus
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.
Upcoming Events
The following upcoming events will show DAVIX in action:
Past Events
The following are events where DAVIX was being talked about:
- 04 March, 2009: SANS 2009, Orlando FL, USA
- March, 2009: Data Analysis and Visualization Workshop at Global HoneyNet Alliance Meetup, Malaysia (Raffael Marty)
- 28 December 2008: 25C3 DAVIX Visualization Bootcamp, Berlin, Germany
- 15 December, 2008: SANS Cyber Defence Initiative 2008, Washington DC, USA
- 20 November, 2008: IS Summit Security Visualization Workshop, Hong Kong, China
- June 25, 2008: First Conference 2008, Vancouver, Canada.
- August 10, 2008: DefCon 2008 Workshop, Las Vegas, USA. Slides
- September 15, 2008: vizSEC 2008 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA. (Slides)
External Publications / Press
DAVIX is part or is mentioned in following publications:
- Report from SANS Orlando, March 2009
- DAVIX gegen Goliath, Jan P. Monsch/Raffael Marty/Christoph Puppe, iX special Herbst 2008 Sicher im Netz
- Wizualizacja Ruchu Sieciowego a Bezpieczeństwo, Grzegorz Błoński, hakin9 11/2008
- 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
- DAVIX Manual: Comprehensive manual about DAVIX, tool usage samples, live CD customizations and deployment options.
- DAVIX Google Code Project: Bug tracking and project management.
- 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.
- DAVIX Wikipedia page.
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I am very excited about the
I am very excited about the Davix distribution and all the tools on it! It would be nice to have a forum site or a mailing list for this subject. The Davix website does not provide any guidance to newbies.
Thank you for being the eyes/ears (quick update of the conference) for those of us who cannot afford
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