Gap Finder Finding Inconsistency of Security Information From Unstructured Text

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GapFinder: Finding Inconsistency of Security Information From Unstructured
Text
Abstract
Textual data mining of open source intelligence on the Web has become an increasingly
important topic across a wide range of domains such as business, law enforcement,
military, and cybersecurity. Text mining efforts utilize natural language processing to
transform unstructured web content into structured forms that can drive various machine
learning applications and data indexing services. For example, applications for text
mining in cybersecurity have produced a range of threat intelligence services that serve
the IT industry. However, a less studied problem is that of automating the identification
of semantic inconsistencies among various text input sources. In this paper, we
introduce GapFinder, a new inconsistency checking system for identifying semantic
inconsistencies within the cybersecurity domain. Specifically, we examine the problem
of identifying technical inconsistencies that arise in the functional descriptions of open
source malware threat reporting information. Our evaluation, using tens of thousands of
relations derived from web-based malware threat reports, demonstrates the ability of
GapFinder to identify the presence of inconsistencies.