@inbook {19607, title = {Effective Visualization of File System Access-Control}, booktitle = {Visualization for Computer Security}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, year = {2008}, month = {2008/01/01/}, pages = {18 - 25}, publisher = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, organization = {Springer Berlin Heidelberg}, abstract = {In this paper, we present a visual representation of access control permissions in a standard hierarchical file system. Our visualization of file permissions leverages treemaps, a popular graphical representation of hierarchical data. In particular, we present a visualization of access control for the NTFS file system that can help a non-expert user understand and manipulate file system permissions in a simple and effective way. While our examples are based on NTFS, our approach can be used for many other hierarchical file systems as well.}, keywords = {Computer Communication Networks, Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics, data mining and knowledge discovery, Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory, Visualization}, isbn = {978-3-540-85931-4, 978-3-540-85933-8}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85933-8_2}, author = {Heitzmann, Alexander and Palazzi, Bernardo and Charalampos Papamanthou and Tamassia, Roberto}, editor = {Goodall, John R. and Conti, Gregory and Ma, Kwan-Liu} }