Exploring web analytics to enhance cyber situational awareness for the protection of online web services

Abstract

Web Analytics is a tool for monitoring online interactions to digital services, typically focused on entity profiling and analysis for market campaign, user behaviour, site performance and market intelligence. In this research, web analytics is applied for intelligencecentric data gathering and analysis to enhanced cyber situational awareness for monitoring critical online web services. A number of intelligence sources such as web logs, browser fingerprints, mobile and tablet fingerprints and endpoint fingerprint are gathered, fused, analysed in real time for enhanced situational awareness for the protection of online web services.