{"597879":{"#nid":"597879","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Romero-Gomez Wins IEEE VizSec 2017 Best Paper Award","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017). The symposium took place on October 2 in Phoenix, Arizona and was held in association with the IEEE InfoVis Conference.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomero-Gomez is a postdoctoral researcher in the Georgia Tech School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE). Her award-winning paper, entitled \u0026ldquo;Towards Designing Effective Visualizations for DNS-based Network Threat Analysis,\u0026rdquo; was coauthored by\u0026nbsp;Yacin Nadji, a\u0026nbsp;fellow ECE postdoctoral researcher, and ECE Assistant Professor Manos Antonakakis, who\u0026nbsp;leads the Astrolavos Lab and advises both Romero-Gomez and Nadji.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERomero-Gomez designed and\u0026nbsp;developed an\u0026nbsp;open source\u0026nbsp;threat console\u0026nbsp;to help information security analysts and security\u0026nbsp;researchers visualize DNS-based threat intelligence in order to better identify network threats.\u0026nbsp;The console that she developed supports both proactive and reactive network threat analysis so that security analysts\u0026nbsp;can better determine the volume of risks associated with an IP address, a geographical location, or an \u0026ldquo;autonomous system\u0026rdquo;\/network (such as a domain name registrar, cloud service, or corporation).\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe console was evaluated by\u0026nbsp;employed information security researchers: seven who provided\u0026nbsp;\u003Cem\u003Ein situ\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026nbsp;feedback and 31 who completed test demonstrations and surveys. This work is part of the\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.activednsproject.org\/\u0022\u003EActive DNS Project\u003C\/a\u003E, which is funded by a $17-million award from the U.S. Department of Defense. The project\u0026rsquo;s website shows examples of how Romero-Gomez\u0026rsquo;s visualizations give contextual information about cyberthreats.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez won the Best Paper Award at the IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017).\u00a0"}],"uid":"27241","created_gmt":"2017-10-25 20:10:19","changed_gmt":"2017-10-25 20:36:29","author":"Jackie Nemeth","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2017-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2017-10-25T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"597880":{"id":"597880","type":"image","title":"Rosa Romero-Gomez","body":null,"created":"1508962976","gmt_created":"2017-10-25 20:22:56","changed":"1508962976","gmt_changed":"2017-10-25 20:22:56","alt":"photo of Rosa Romero-Gomez","file":{"fid":"227927","name":"RosaGomez_web.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RosaGomez_web.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/RosaGomez_web.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":35675,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/RosaGomez_web.jpg?itok=4J7ZOA1g"}},"597881":{"id":"597881","type":"image","title":"ECE Postdoctoral Researcher Rosa Romero-Gomez accepts the Best Paper Award at VizSec 2017.","body":null,"created":"1508963699","gmt_created":"2017-10-25 20:34:59","changed":"1508963699","gmt_changed":"2017-10-25 20:34:59","alt":"photo of Rosa Romero-Gomez accepting best paper award at IEEE VizSec 2017","file":{"fid":"227928","name":"VizSec Best Paper Award - Robert, Rosa 2.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/VizSec%20Best%20Paper%20Award%20-%20Robert%2C%20Rosa%202.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/VizSec%20Best%20Paper%20Award%20-%20Robert%2C%20Rosa%202.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":737281,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/VizSec%20Best%20Paper%20Award%20-%20Robert%2C%20Rosa%202.jpg?itok=t6Kszu54"}}},"media_ids":["597880","597881"],"related_links":[{"url":"http:\/\/astrolavos.gatech.edu","title":"Astrolavos Lab"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.ece.gatech.edu","title":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"},{"url":"http:\/\/www.gatech.edu","title":"Georgia Tech "},{"url":"http:\/\/vizsec.org\/vizsec2017\/","title":"IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017)"}],"groups":[{"id":"1255","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"categories":[{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"8862","name":"Student Research"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"153","name":"Computer Science\/Information Technology and Security"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"}],"keywords":[{"id":"176050","name":"Romero-Gomez"},{"id":"176051","name":"Yacin Nadji"},{"id":"173795","name":"Manos Antonakakis"},{"id":"176052","name":"IEEE Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security (VizSec 2017)"},{"id":"173796","name":"Astrolavos Lab"},{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"166855","name":"School of Electrical and Computer Engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"145171","name":"Cybersecurity"},{"id":"39481","name":"National Security"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EJackie Nemeth\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Electrical and Computer Engineering\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-894-2906\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ETara La Bouff\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EInstitute for Information Security and Privacy\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E404-769-5408\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["jackie.nemeth@ece.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}