Web Security Dashboards

Dashboard for security content logging and data mining

Security management dashboards demand real-time analysis and a clear at-a-glance approach to information visualization. Typical requirements include the logging and reporting of security threats across a spectrum of types.

Regulatory, legal and compliance requirements now force companies to not only understand network activity from a threat perspective, but to proactively manage and mitigate certain protection measures and enforce acceptable use policies.

Here are some screenshots of a web security dashboard called FortiAnalyzer.

Web Security Dashboard

Customized security environment reports and graphs

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Microsoft Access Dashboard for Project Portfolio Management

This dashboard screenshot shows a Project Portfolio Management Dashboard implemented with Microsoft Access. The system front end is constructed using OpenGate Software’s UI Buider for Microsoft Access.

As you see in the dashboard’s screenshot, you can track projects in your portfolio in terms of status and financial metrics. The dashboard system allows for the performance of cost/benefit analysis for the entire project portfolio as well as at the individual project level.

Microsoft Access dashboards make use of Access VB to enable system functionality. A demo for a Project Portfolio Management Template can be downloaded from Opengate.

Microsoft Access Dashboard Screenshot (click to enlarge):

Project Portfolio Management Dashboard Created with Microsoft Access

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Brand Marketing Dashboard

This example of a brand marketing dashboard is meant for a marketing executive to use as a daily check on brand management metrics. Among the high level metrics categories are Brand Metrics, Advertising Metrics, and Purchase Metrics. Here are the KPIs in each category:

• Brand Metrics
  • Brand Awareness
  • Brand Commitment
  • Brand Attributes
• Advertising Metrics
  • Advertising Awareness
  • Source of Ad Awareness
  • Message Association
• Purchase Metrics
  • Market Share
  • Frequency Profile
  • Repeat Purchase

Here is the marketing dashboard screenshot. Click on the image to enlarge it.

This brand marketing dashboard was implemented with Xcelsius

 

For more marketing dashboards, see:

Marketing Dashboard Best Practices

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Videos of Dashboards and Business Intelligence

The Dashboard Spy is proud to announce the beta launch of a new dashboarding resource called Dashboards.TV. This unique dashboard video blog will feature videos of business dashboards, KPIs, Metrics, and other business intelligence material.

Use this link to visit the new service:

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Video Blog about Dashboards and Business Intelligence

Dashboard Spy readers, let me know what you think. Would you watch videos about dashboards? If you have some good videos on youtube that you’d like me to post to Dashboards.TV, add the link to the comments below.

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Beijing Summer Olympics Dashboard

Looking for the 2008 Olympic Medal Count? Use this link for the Olympic Scoreboard:

Olympic Scorecard

Olympic Dashboard Data now live! The 2008 Summer Olympic Games Medal Count Dashboard is now showing current results.

Visit the iDashboards Beijing Olympics Scorecard.

Here is a screenshot of the medal count page:

Here is the Olympics Scorecard page:

The daily updated dashboard provides a summary of the day’s athletic results and an interactive world map highlights participating countries and corresponding medal tallies. The dashboards’ unique hover-and-click capabilities enable fans to drill down through each country’s results by sporting event and individual athlete performance. For Olympic enthusiasts, an additional dashboard provides even greater detail and the ability to compare results from across the globe with the help of graphic bar charts, speedometers, gauges, interactive country flags, and medals.

 

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Naval Aviation Readiness Dashboard

Did you know that the U.S. Navy consciously runs itself like a business enterprise? That includes embracing the value of enterprise dashboards and other business intelligence tools.

The Navy has an overarching program called Naval Aviation Enterprise (NAE) that is operated much like a $60 billion corporation. It’s overall vision is to “To deliver the right force with the right readiness at the right cost at the right time … today, and in the future.”

“It’s about collaborating, sharing and enhancing our business practices. Not to turn the Navy into a business, but to understand the business of the Navy so that we remain the most effective and efficient Navy in the world.”

– CNO Admiral Gary Roughead, March 2008

Let’s have a look at an enterprise dashboard (what the Navy likes to call Cockpit Charts) that monitors progress to goal in the area of mission readiness.

Here is a screenshot. In the interest of security, I’m showing a low-resolution image. Click on the “read more” link after the screen shot for a discussion of the relevant metrics used in this readiness dashboard.

Enterprise Dashboard used by the US Navy

 

Let’s have a look at the metrics featured on this enterprise dashboard:

Business Intelligence Dashboard White Papers

Dashboard Topic: Business Intelligence Whitepapers

The Dashboard Spy is now collecting the best business intelligence dashboard white papers and business trade magazines for his readers to read and learn from.

Recently featured are the following two white papers on dashboard best practices:

Business Intelligence Best Practices for Dashboard Design by Information Builders

Worst Practices in Business Intelligence by Information Builders

Come visit the Dashboards by Example Featured White Papers and Trade Magazines.

 

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Isreali Police Performance Management Dashboards

Dashboards, whether business intelligence dashboards, or software application dashboards, are best understood when experienced directly. It can be quite difficult to explain in words how certain dashboards work. That’s the challenge when writing and discussing enterprise dashboard software. Often, however, it’s not always possible for you to access the dashboards we study. That’s why The Dashboard Spy has become so popular. We’ll include detailed screenshots of the digital dashboards (as we do on Dashboards by Example), or sometimes, even video coverage of the business dashboard (see this Dashboard Spy Video).

A pet peeve of mine is when I come across literature from business intelligence vendors that discuss business dashboard technology and dashboards at length without including screenshots. I come across this quite a bit and it just irks me.

A couple of years ago, a Dashboard Spy reader pointed me to this Microsoft article about an Isreali Police Department dashboard case study and asked if I would please track down some screenshots of the dashboard.

Well, it took almost two years, but here are some screenshots of the performance dashboard used by the Isreali police to track over 100 KPIs for their 27,000 officers. The technology behind the performance dashboard is Microsoft Office Business Scorecard Manager 2005.

Click on the examples to enlarge the screenshots. These digital dashboards are in Hebrew, so I can’t tell you exactly which metrics are shown on these screens.

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