An Exploration of Cyber Symbology

This paper reports a study on Cyber Symbology conducted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group on Exploratory Visual Analytics. There is a clear need to develop military cyber symbology to enable visualization of cyber situation; but, there is no clear solution or methodology as to how it can best be done. This paper discusses existing approaches and considers necessary aspects of the future research required. It also lays out questions that must be answered by the research. It therefore provides a foundation and context for future research programmes to develop military cyber symbology.