An Exploratory Analysis on Cybersecurity Ecosystem Utilizing the NICE Framework

Abstract

Within the past few decades, cybersecurity has grown from individual concerns into a national-level issue. With its explosive growth, there has been an increasing demand with cybersecurity workers struggling to catch up. Government, academia, and the private sector have all taken initiatives to fulfill these needs with varying methods and levels of success. Additionally, there has been considerable amount of research for each domain spanning across multiple disciplines. However, there is currently a lack for a holistic view on cybersecurity between all three domains and the relationships that exist between them. This research paper aims to explore the current cybersecurity ecosystem to allow future researchers and practitioners to understand the full scope and broaden cybersecurity knowledge. To achieve this, we use an ontological network and identify key relationships that exist within all three domains.