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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		A tool that improves the view of computer network systems
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:03
	Publish Date:		2016-10-12 19:00:00
	Description:		Your computer network at home or at the office probably has a list of things on them, like handsets, phones, tablets. Imagine now how that may look scaled up at a large government agency like the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. There, administrators have to view an entire network system from a vantage point of security. Computer scientist Domingo Colon says because there are needs that are lacking in some commercial offerings, they developed their own tool to watch and probe a network. It’s called Network Mapping Systems or NeMS. "One of the things that our tool does is it provides a visualization of exactly what you have just done to your environment and so it helps reduce the complexity by providing a way for you to actually understand and visualize your changes. Not just the configuration information, not just one piece of data, but really to look at the entire organization, how it’s behaving, how it’s structured. It’s been used inside the government and now with the work of commercializing the product, we’re looking to get it out there to help the private sector because we all have the same threats facing us and cyber security is extremely costly when things go wrong."
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