Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine

Al Moubayed, N.; Wall, D.; McGough, A.S.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_19

Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine

Al Moubayed, N.; Wall, D.; McGough, A.S.

Authors

Dr Noura Al Moubayed noura.al-moubayed@durham.ac.uk
Associate Professor

D. Wall

A.S. McGough

Contributors

Theo Tryfonas
Editor

Abstract

Successful Cybersecurity depends on the processing of vast quantities of data from a diverse range of sources such as police reports, blogs, intelligence reports, security bulletins, and news sources. This results in large volumes of unstructured text data that is difficult to manage or investigate manually. In this paper we introduce a tool that summarises, categorises and models such data sets along with a search engine to query the model produced from the data. The search engine can be used to find links, similarities and differences between different documents in a way beyond the current search approaches. The tool is based on the probabilistic topic modelling technique which goes further than the lexical analysis of documents to model the subtle relationships between words, documents, and abstract topics. It will assists researchers to query the underlying models latent in the documents and tap into the repository of documents allowing them o be ordered thematically.

Citation

Al Moubayed, N., Wall, D., & McGough, A. (2017). Identifying Changes in the Cybersecurity Threat Landscape using the LDA-Web Topic Modelling Data Search Engine. In T. Tryfonas (Ed.), Human aspects of information security, privacy and trust : 5th International Conference, HAS 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, proceedings (287-295). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_19

Acceptance Date	Feb 21, 2017
Online Publication Date	May 13, 2017
Publication Date	May 13, 2017
Deposit Date	Mar 19, 2017
Publicly Available Date	May 13, 2018
Publisher	Springer Verlag
Pages	287-295
Series Title	Lecture notes in computer science
Book Title	Human aspects of information security, privacy and trust : 5th International Conference, HAS 2017, held as part of HCI International 2017, Vancouver, BC, Canada, July 9-14, 2017, proceedings.
ISBN	9783319584591
DOI	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58460-7_19