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While the Homeland Security Department no longer color-codes its threat levels, several security vendors offer up their own dashboards with all sorts of eye candy designed to keep track of which viruses and malware are heading yourway. Here is a brief rundown of the more popular services. All of them rely on agents and collection points scattered across the major Internet peering points and other critical junctions to watch for particular traffic patterns. The idea here is to gain insight into what is happening before something enters your network and starts to hose your equipment or steal your data.