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{{Notability|Products|date=December 2008}}
{{Infobox OS
| name = DAVIX
| logo = [[File:DAVIX-Logo.png|170px|DAVIX Logo]]
| screenshot = <!-- Do NOT change the screenshot unless there is BIG change in the UI. When taking screenshot, please resize your window (e.g. 640*480), disable your extensions and use the default theme. -->[[File:DAVIX.png|250px|Screenshot of DAVIX]]
| caption = DAVIX 1.0.1
| developer = Jan Monsch, Raffael Marty
| family = [[Unix-like]]
| source_model = [[Open-source software|Open source]]
| working_state = Current
| latest_release_version = v 1.0.1
| latest_release_date = {{release date and age|2008|08|06}}
| kernel_type = [[Monolithic kernel]]
| ui = [[KDE]]
| license = Various
| website = [http://davix.secviz.org/ davix.secviz.org]
}}

'''DAVIX''' is a [[Live CD]] based on [[Slackware]] for the purposes of [[computer security]] operations.  The distribution focuses on data analysis and visualization.<ref>The Davix Live CD - http://www.secviz.org/content/the-davix-live-cd</ref> DAVIX stands for Data Analysis and VIsualization Linux. It is the first Live CD to integrate so many visualization tools. The long-term goal for the distribution is to provide a good set of tools supporting the complete process of visual data analysis.

Jan Monsch began work on the CD in December 2007.<ref>DAVIX - A Look Behind the Scene - http://www.iplosion.com/archives/63 {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205081454/http://www.iplosion.com/archives/63 |date=2008-12-05 }}</ref>  After discussions with Raffael Marty in January 2008, Jan agreed to produce the CD for "Applied Security Visualization" based on a list of utilities Raffael had discussed in the book.<ref>{{cite book
  | last = Marty
  | first = Raffael
  | authorlink = Raffael Marty
  | title = Applied Security Visualization
  | publisher = [[Pearson Education]]
  | series = Addison-Wesley Professional
  | year = 2008
  | isbn = 0-321-51010-0 }}</ref>

==Features==

DAVIX contains a collection of more than 25 free tools for data processing and visualization.<ref>Security Visualization - What you don’t see can hurt you - http://holisticinfosec.org/toolsmith/pdf/june2008.pdf</ref> Some examples of the tools are:
* [[Packet sniffer|Data Capture]] - [[tcpdump]], [http://passive.sourceforge.net/ PADS], [[p0f]], [[Snort (software)]], [[Wireshark]]
* Data Processing - [http://chaosreader.sourceforge.net/ Chaosreader], [http://www.maxmind.com/app/ip-location GeoIP], [https://web.archive.org/web/20081002083906/http://tcpreplay.synfin.net/trac/ tcpreplay]
* [[Data Visualization]] - [http://afterglow.sourceforge.net/ AfterGlow], [[Cytoscape]], [[Graphviz]], [[MRTG]], [[R Project]], [http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/timesearcher/ TimeSearcher], [http://tnv.sourceforge.net/ TNV]

The DAVIX CD ships with a 15 chapter manual which covers DAVIX use and customization with examples and screenshots.<ref>The DAVIX Manual - http://82.197.185.121/davix/release/davix-manual-1.0.1.pdf{{Dead link|date=July 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>  Additionally, most utilities on the system have documentation pages.

The DAVIX CD is based on [[Slax]].

==Security visualization==
Computer information security visualization is a form of [[Visualization (computer graphics)]].  In enterprise environments, computer security information can be generated in very large volumes, which can become very difficult to analyze without a visual context.  Using DAVIX, a security engineer can visually spot anomalies in network traffic such as changes in IP sources/destinations, network protocols, application protocols, traffic patterns, frequency, and volume.

== Current State ==
DAVIX was released at [[Black Hat Briefings]]/[[DEF CON]] in August 2008.<ref>DAVIX 1.0.1 Released - http://www.secviz.org/content/davix-101-released</ref>

== See also ==
* [[Slax]]
* [[BackTrack]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
* [http://davix.secviz.org/ DAVIX Homepage]
* [http://www.secviz.org/ SecViz]
* [http://vizsec.org/ Visualization for Cyber Security]

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