Agile visual analytics for banking cyber “big data”

This paper describes the rapid development of a tailored cyber situational awareness and analysis application for the 2012 IEEE VAST Mini-Challenge 1 (MC1) — Cyber Situation Awareness. The novel aspect of this project was in the process of developing the tailored solution for a “big data” application. Aperture is an open, adaptable, and extensible Web 2.0 visualization framework, designed to produce visualizations for analysts and decision makers in any common web browser. Aperture utilizes a novel layer-based approach to visualization assembly, and a data mapping API that simplifies the process of transformation of data or analytic results into visual forms and properties.