The LogLED An LED-Based Information Security Dashboard

Cybersecurity staff in many small/medium organizations often find themselves shorthanded. We juggle tasks on a daily basis from many areas of security including device configuration and review, managing firewalls, IPS, Web content filters and email security solutions, architecture design, code review, penetration testing, intrusion detection, incident response and more. When in a crunch for resources it is especially important to ensure that we focus on issues that are important and that we measure our effectiveness in that regard. With many staff receiving hundreds of emails per day and alarms from several different systems, a simple, visual dashboard to ensure attention is given to security-related issues when needed would be immensely helpful. This paper presents a fun and interactive 'eye-candy'tool (an LED light strip) that an organization can build to display several key information security metrics that can be seen and interpreted in less than a second providing an instantaneous measure of the security defense condition of the organization.