Today’s high speed networks produce and incredible amount of log data. This log data is generated from a variety of network devices such as routers, firewalls, operating systems and network services. This poses a series of problems for the investigator.

1. How do you sort and sift through gigabytes of log data?
2. How do you correlate the logs from different network devices and services?
3. How do you not just view the data, but interact with it too?
4. How do you quickly share data with other investigators?
5. How do you interact and not just view the data?

Ever wonder where the website is that you are surfing? In the physical world, it is all about location, location, location. But what about the physical world? Right now, phishing and pharming are at an all time high, ID theft abounds and it seems that you get a new scam in email twice a day.

The ANVISS Global Sensor Grid (GSG) is the nervous system of the ANVISS operating environment. The GSG performs a variety of intelligence collecting at the request of ANVISS users. When an ANVISS user needs additional information regarding an IP address or an IRC nick-name, that request for information is sent up to the GSG for queuing and processing.