Infographic Design in Cybersecurity Incidents: Data Visualization and User Response

Abstract

Cybersecurity infographics are essential in improving the efficiency of security incident handling and enhancing user security awareness. However, traditional designs often have limitations, such as being too technical and monolithic and lacking user orientation and real-time updates. This paper constructs a cybersecurity infographic design system to solve the above problems. More customized information presentation is provided for different user groups by improving the infographics’ comprehensibility, interactivity, and real-time performance. The research method is based on user-centered design principles. First, a dynamic interactive graph framework ensures that the graph can update the content according to real-time data and highlight the key threat information of security incidents. Second, the system combines flexible and interactive design to allow users to customize display format, data filtering, and update frequency to meet the personalized needs of different user groups. Ultimately, the clarity and usability of information presentation are improved through visual optimization of graph design, allowing non-professional users to understand complex security incident information quickly. Experimental results show that the average decision-making time of users who use the real-time updated graph designed by the system built in this paper in a simulated Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack scenario is shortened by about 32%, and the decision accuracy is improved by 14%. The survey results demonstrate that cybersecurity experts rate interactivity, data filtering function, and real-time update all over 4.3, and non-professional users rate visual design and information clarity at 3.92 and 3.87, respectively. The system significantly improves users’ decision-making efficiency and security response capabilities.