Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Jungchan Na

Sungwon Sohn

Jongsoo Jang

Jonghyun Kim

Beomhwan Chang

Chiyoon Jeong

Geonlyang Kim

Seongyoung Sohn

Jongho Ryu

Disclosed is an apparatus for displaying the state of a network to enable a user to intuitively recognize a network security situation. The disclosed apparatus for displaying the state of a network includes: a security event collecting unit that collects security events from the outside; an IP address converting unit that converts a source IP address and a destination IP address in characteristic data of the collected security events into geographic information on the basis of information stored in a geographic information database; and a network state display unit that displays the flow of security events for each protocol between a source and a destination as an image including a globe shape, on the basis of the characteristic data and the geographic information transmitted from the IP address converting unit.

Apparatus and method for visualizing network state by using geographic information

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Daejeon, South Korea

Jungchan Na