TY - JOUR
T1 - Approaches to analyze cyber terrorist communities
T2 - Survey and challenges
AU - Saidi, Firas
AU - Trabelsi, Zouheir
AU - Salah, Khaled
AU - Ghezala, Henda Ben
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2017/5/1
Y1 - 2017/5/1
N2 - Cyber terrorism has become a major threat to world peace and global economic prosperity. The exponential growth of cyber terrorist communities has given rise to the need for the development of effective approaches, techniques, and tools to gain in-depth understanding of the ecosystem of these communities (specifically, in terms of inner structure, working strategies, and operation tactics). In the literature, numerous research works on the detection and analysis of cyber terrorist communities have been conducted. More notably, Social Networks Analysis (SNA) has emerged to be a key research field that attempts to analyze such cyber terrorist communities. In this paper, we survey, study, and classify the main approaches related to the analysis of cyber terrorist communities. We also discuss their characteristics, strengths and limitations. The approaches have been categorized into two main categories, namely, SNA based approaches and hybrid approaches. Furthermore, we identify areas that entail further research works with the aim of devising and developing more effective approaches that aid in analyzing cyber terrorist communities.
AB - Cyber terrorism has become a major threat to world peace and global economic prosperity. The exponential growth of cyber terrorist communities has given rise to the need for the development of effective approaches, techniques, and tools to gain in-depth understanding of the ecosystem of these communities (specifically, in terms of inner structure, working strategies, and operation tactics). In the literature, numerous research works on the detection and analysis of cyber terrorist communities have been conducted. More notably, Social Networks Analysis (SNA) has emerged to be a key research field that attempts to analyze such cyber terrorist communities. In this paper, we survey, study, and classify the main approaches related to the analysis of cyber terrorist communities. We also discuss their characteristics, strengths and limitations. The approaches have been categorized into two main categories, namely, SNA based approaches and hybrid approaches. Furthermore, we identify areas that entail further research works with the aim of devising and developing more effective approaches that aid in analyzing cyber terrorist communities.
KW - Analysis of cyber terrorist communities
KW - Cyber security
KW - Cyber terrorism
KW - SNA measures
KW - Social network analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cose.2016.12.017
DO - 10.1016/j.cose.2016.12.017
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85010468206
SN - 0167-4048
VL - 66
SP - 66
EP - 80
JO - Computers and Security
JF - Computers and Security
ER -