%0 Book Section %B Visualization for Computer Security %D 2008 %T Effective Visualization of File System Access-Control %A Heitzmann, Alexander %A Palazzi, Bernardo %A Charalampos Papamanthou %A Tamassia, Roberto %E Goodall, John R. %E Conti, Gregory %E Ma, Kwan-Liu %K Computer Communication Networks %K Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics %K data mining and knowledge discovery %K Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory %K Visualization %X 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. %B Visualization for Computer Security %S Lecture Notes in Computer Science %I Springer Berlin Heidelberg %P 18 - 25 %8 2008/01/01/ %@ 978-3-540-85931-4, 978-3-540-85933-8 %G eng %U http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-540-85933-8_2