State-of-the Art and Trends in Network Security Control

Abstract

: Network security assurance for data transfer and processing plays significant role in the domain of information security. Presented review deals with current research situation, makes analysis and classification of publications on the topic with regards to scientific, temporal, geographic, etc. aspects in order to determine promising development trends. Publication base Scopus serves as a source for sampling. Analysis and sampling was implemented both in the manual mode and by means of special software for automated search by keywords. Sample could be considered as a representative one: about 2000 publications from more than 1000 sources. Network security research statistical characteristic obtained as a result of analysis were visualized in a graphic form by diagrams of different types. Statistics were represented according to different criteria: problem statement, application domain, publication activity in different continents, countries, attribution to authors, research and industrial organizations, publisher houses, citation index, temporal research activities distribution in the period of 2015-2020 years, etc. Analysis resulted in formation of most relevant set of works, on the basis of which classifications of promising research directions and network security assurance methods were developed.