The map is based on data from Kapersky Lab. The world is under attack, and in many places. Apparent attacks take you suddenly along a 3-D virtual path, then the screen pans back to show the glow of a vast array of attack signals on an ever-changing screen. Rather than a flat map, this page shows a spinning globe hanging dimly in the darkness of space. Kapersky CybermapĪnother ominous-looking map is the Cyberthreat Real-Time Map from Kapersky. What dastardly deeds we must be witnessing as we watch the digital darts assailing targets across the globe. The company touts among its products the “Norse Intelligence Service”, and the single item under its markets menu is “Government”. Statistics at the bottom of the screen list attack origins, attack types, attack targets, and live attacks, while a blue-on-black world map shows malicious activity between countries and across continents. The Attack Map from Norse Corp has all the look and feel of a modern video game. It should be noted that just because an attack path shows that it originated from a certain country, that doesn’t mean that the attacker is actually in that country. It also includes a gallery that gives visualization to some interesting past attacks. Global DDoS attacks are monitored using data from Arbor Networks on a tool called Digital Attack Map. Perhaps the main reason for this map is to get people to purchase their website monitoring tool. At the time of this writing, the page said that there were 12,326 websites down in the last hour. They say it is “a live broadcast of Internet statistics, as collected by Pingdom from over 700,000 users across the world”. Pingdom has a map called “The State of the Internet”. It’s all about the collection of data, and the more you have the better. Just click on some of the maps below and you will quickly see the association between data and geography on your screen. That may include the locations of fire hydrants in a city or the presence of data centers around the globe.Īlthough the term is not commonly used in this context, you could say that maps that display internet outages are also examples of GIS technology. As explained in the Techopedia article “How GIS Can Put Your Organization on the Map”, GIS combines data collection and management, spatial or geographic analysis, and a visual display to give a broad view of what is happening in a given geographical area. This is the power of geographical information systems (GIS). Today’s capable computers can now easily monitor these data points, gather them into a unified system, and associate them with geographical locations. Any number of other problems may be defined and recognized as they happen. We’ll discuss the concept of global internet visualization and provide a few examples.Īs we speak, internet problems are occurring worldwide. Some are used only to demonstrate the global reach of internet security services, while others can provide useful, real-time information. But what if you could see the whole picture? That’s the idea behind internet tracking dashboards. As much as we like data, it’s very easy to become lost in it.
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