Monitoring ‘Cyber Related’ Discussions in Online Social Platforms
Ruth Ikwu, Panos Louvieris · International Journal on Cyber Situational Awareness · 2019
As the use of social platforms continues to evolve, in areas such as cybersecurity and defence, it has become imperative to develop adaptive methods for tracking, identifying and investigating cyber-related activities on these platforms.This paper introduces a new approach for detecting "cyberrelated" discussions in online social platforms using a candidate set of terms that are representative of the cyber domain.The objective of this paper is to build and evaluate these candidate terms for detection and tracking of cyberrelated activities across various online platforms.The methodology presented in this paper applies natural language processing techniques to representative data from multiple social platforms to develop a representative cyber lexicon that can be applied to filter and text retrieval tasks in online social platforms.This paper also evaluates the terms' performance in classifying discussions as 'cyber-related' or 'non-cyberrelated'.The results presented are most applicable to cyber threat monitoring and detection of malicious cyber activities in online social platforms.