Version 0.3 of PicViz has been released, based on python and QT - which bodes well for potential portability. This is yet another tool to help one actually filter through piles of connections, using a classic parallel axis setup. Drilldown is offered. Some example renderings of the Kaminsky DNS attacks are available.
A more advanced version of the kind of output achievable is also provided showing how with the help of a pre-processing script, the SSH login process can be graphed:
Graphs are produced via an intermediate scripting language which has by design strong similarity to that used by Graphviz. I’ll definatley be adding this to my toolset and seeing how it handles processing of some of the rather large data sets Ive got.
