"500,000 Articles on Ethical Hacking Analyzed"

Findings from an analysis of 500,000 articles on ethical hacking from academic databases call for greater investment in cybersecurity. Fredrik Heiding, a doctoral student in Network and Systems Engineering at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, emphasizes that much is being done globally, but there is still much room for effort and improvement. Heiding and his research colleagues combed through all of the scientific articles on ethical hacking in the Scopus database by developing a scraping tool and defining areas and words that match ethical hacking. Their findings are shared in an article titled "Research Communities in Cyber Security Vulnerability Assessments: A Comprehensive Literature Review." The researchers defined their search criteria, which produced 500,000 results for ethical hacking. They were able to identify 16 different clusters of ethical hacking. They also discovered that four of the top five ethical hacking universities are located in China. The search also revealed other trends, including that much hacking research focuses on electric power and that the threat to critical electric power plants has grown. This article continues to discuss the analysis of 500,000 articles on ethical hacking. 

KTH Royal Institute of Technology reports "500,000 Articles on Ethical Hacking Analyzed"