Analysis of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures to Produce Security Trends

Abstract

Around two decades ago, we could not book plane tickets over the phone. As years go by, we invented and built multiple technological advances to make our lives more convenient than before. But this exposes us to different threats and vulnerabilities our devices bring to us. According to the National Vulnerability Database and iterated by Hoole et al., the publicly disclosed security issues are increasing rapidly, as observed in 2018. It has risen by 12.8% from the previous year. To further understand these threats, the researchers aim to provide an analysis of the common vulnerabilities and exposure database by MITRE by using a dynamic topic modelling called the BerTopic model. In addition, the research intends to produce security threat trends over the past years to see which threats have risen in the past decade.