Text Mining in Cybersecurity: Exploring Threats and Opportunities
| Autor: | Rick van der Kleij, Erik M. Boertjes, Mike Wilmer, Maaike H. T. de Boer, Stephan Raaijmakers, Babette J. Bakker |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Decision support system
Computer Networks and Communications Computer science 0211 other engineering and technologies Neuroscience (miscellaneous) foresight 02 engineering and technology cyber resilience Computer security computer.software_genre lcsh:Technology 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Added value information retrieval lcsh:Science 021110 strategic defence & security studies lcsh:T cyber security digital crime Computer Science Applications Human-Computer Interaction Futures studies Graph (abstract data type) lcsh:Q 020201 artificial intelligence & image processing trend analysis computer |
| Zdroj: | Multimodal Technologies and Interaction Volume 3 Issue 3 Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, Vol 3, Iss 3, p 62 (2019) |
| ISSN: | 2414-4088 |
| DOI: | 10.3390/mti3030062 |
| Popis: | The number of cyberattacks on organizations is growing. To increase cyber resilience, organizations need to obtain foresight to anticipate cybersecurity vulnerabilities, developments, and potential threats. This paper describes a tool that combines state of the art text mining and information retrieval techniques to explore the opportunities of using these techniques in the cybersecurity domain. Our tool, the Horizon Scanner, can scrape and store data from websites, blogs and PDF articles, and search a database based on a user query, show textual entities in a graph, and provide and visualize potential trends. The aim of the Horizon Scanner is to help experts explore relevant data sources for potential threats and trends and to speed up the process of foresight. In a requirements session and user evaluation of the tool with cyber experts from the Dutch Defense Cyber Command, we explored whether the Horizon Scanner tool has the potential to fulfill its aim in the cybersecurity domain. Although the overall evaluation of the tool was not as good as expected, some aspects of the tool were found to have added value, providing us with valuable insights into how to design decision support for forecasting analysts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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