Visualization for Program Understanding

Program understanding is of vital importance to gain situational awareness in computing networks, which in turn is crucial to obtaining security of cyber space. Automating program understanding is a current hot topic of research, but for the foreseeable future, human practitioners will have to rely on their human intellect to interpret the ever increasing amounts of data generated by binary analysis program understanding tools. Visualization is one of the most effective methods to enhance their interpretation ability. This research project has created a web-based binary analysis program understanding visualization interface. Rather than merely replicating single program analysis in visual form, the power of this interface lies in its ability to visualize the commonalities and differences between sets of programs based on criteria which the user can change on the fly. By providing human-centric comparison visualization work-flows, this interface enables discovery of complex insights by human practitioners