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Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities for leveraging artificial intelligence in various domains, including cybersecurity. As the volume and sophistication of cyber threats continue to grow, there is an increasing need for intelligent systems that can automatically detect vulnerabilities, analyze malware, and respond to attacks. In this survey, we conduct a comprehensive review of the literature on the application of LLMs in cybersecurity (LLM4Security). By comprehensively collecting over 30K relevant papers and systematically analyzing 127 papers from top security and software engineering venues, we aim to provide a holistic view of how LLMs are being used to solve diverse problems across the cybersecurity domain. Through our analysis, we identify several key findings. First, we observe that LLMs are being applied to a wide range of cybersecurity tasks, including vulnerability detection, malware analysis, network intrusion detection, and phishing detection. Second, we find that the datasets used for training and evaluating LLMs in these tasks are often limited in size and diversity, highlighting the need for more comprehensive and representative datasets. Third, we identify several promising techniques for adapting LLMs to specific cybersecurity domains, such as fine-tuning, transfer learning, and domain-specific pre-training. Finally, we discuss the main challenges and opportunities for future research in LLM4Security, including the need for more interpretable and explainable models, the importance of addressing data privacy and security concerns, and the potential for leveraging LLMs for proactive defense and threat hunting. Overall, our survey provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art in LLM4Security and identifies several promising directions for future research.
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Cite this article: Lame, G. (2019) 'Systematic Literature Reviews: An Introduction', in Pr oceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Engineering Design (ICED19), Delft, The Netherlands ...
Literature reviews establish the foundation of academic inquires. However, in the planning field, we lack rigorous systematic reviews. In this article, through a systematic search on the methodology of literature review, we categorize a typology of literature reviews, discuss steps in conducting a systematic literature review, and provide suggestions on how to enhance rigor in literature ...
Systematic literature reviews (SRs) are a way of synthesising scientific evidence to answer a particular research question in a way that is transparent and reproducible, while seeking to include all published ... SRs treat the literature review process like a scientific process, and apply concepts of empirical research in order to make the ...
Ideally, a systematic review should be conducted before empirical research, and a subset of the literature from the systematic review that is closely related to the empirical work can be used as background review. In that sense, good stand-alone reviews could help improve the quality of background reviews.
Over the past decade, advances in systematic review methodology and terminology have necessitated an update to the guideline. The PRISMA 2020 statement replaces the 2009 statement and includes new reporting guidance that reflects advances in methods to identify, select, appraise, and synthesise studies. The structure and presentation of the ...
Abstract. This article aims to provide an overview of the structure, form and content of systematic reviews. It focuses in particular on the literature searching component, and covers systematic database searching techniques, searching for grey literature and the importance of librarian involvement in the search.
ing to a three-step process for planning, conducting and reporting the review, are summarized below. 4.1 Planning the Review To plan a systematic literature review includes several actions: Identification of the need for a review. The need for a systematic review originates from a researcher aiming to understand the state-of-the-art in an area,
Traditional literature review has been long practised and regarded as one of the best ways to situate a study within the existing knowledge. Currently, there is another alter-native of a review, which is systematic literature review (SLR). According to Higgins et al. (2011), SLR or also known as systematic review (SR) can be dened as follows:
Method details Overview. A Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is a research methodology to collect, identify, and critically analyze the available research studies (e.g., articles, conference proceedings, books, dissertations) through a systematic procedure [12].An SLR updates the reader with current literature about a subject [6].The goal is to review critical points of current knowledge on a ...
Systematic review allows the assessment of primary study quality, identifying the weaknesses in current experimental efforts and guiding the methodology of future research. Choosing the features of study design to review and critique is dependent on the subject and design of the literature identified.
making a good-quality literature review the most relevant research method they need to master (Snyder, 2019). While there are many different types of literature reviews (e.g., meta -analysis, rapid review, scoping review; Grant & Booth, 2009), we believe that systematic literature review
The guide I present here has eight major steps (see Figure 1) that one needs to take to conduct a systematic literature review. Indeed, these steps are very valuable for any kind of literature review; however, for a review to be scientifically rigorous, all of the following steps are essential.
Systematic Review Components. Starts with a clearly articulated question. Uses explicit, rigorous methods to identify, critically appraise, and synthesize relevant studies. Appraises relevant published and unpublished evidence for validity before combining and analyzing data. Reports methodology, studies included in the review, and conclusions ...
Systematic literature review In contrast to the traditional or narrative review, systematic reviews use a more rigorous and well-defined approach to reviewing the literature in a specific subject area. Systematic reviews are used to answer well-focused questions about clinical practice. i^irahoo (2006) suggests that a systematic review should
A systematic review aims to bring evidence together to answer a pre-defined research question. This involves the identification of all primary research relevant to the defined review question, the critical appraisal of this research, and the synthesis of the findings.13 Systematic reviews may combine data from different.
HOWTO WRITE A SYSTEmATIC REVIEW: A STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE 65 VOLUmE 23, JUNE 2013 or 6) improve study generalizability. Bear in mind that the purpose of a systematic review is to not only collect all the relevant literature in an unbiased fashion, but to extract data presented in these articles in order to provide readers with a
The semi-systematic or narrative review approach is designed for topics that have been conceptualized differently and studied by various groups of researchers within diverse disciplines and that hinder a full systematic review process (Wong et al., 2013). That is, to review every single article that could be relevant to the topic is simply not ...
CONCLUSION. Siddaway 16 noted that, "The best reviews synthesize studies to draw broad theoretical conclusions about what the literature means, linking theory to evidence and evidence to theory" (p. 747). To that end, high quality systematic reviews are explicit, rigorous, and reproducible. It is these three criteria that should guide authors seeking to write a systematic review or editors ...
A systematic literature review is a means of evaluating and interpreting all available research relevant to a particular research question, topic area, or phenomenon of interest. Systematic reviews aim to present a fair evaluation of a research topic by using a trustworthy, rigorous, and auditable methodology.
View a PDF of the paper titled Large Language Models for Cyber Security: A Systematic Literature Review, by HanXiang Xu and 7 other authors. View PDF Abstract: The rapid advancement of Large Language Models (LLMs) has opened up new opportunities for leveraging artificial intelligence in various domains, including cybersecurity. As the volume ...
A Systematic Literature Review of Oncological and Clinical Outcomes. ASO Visual Abstract; Published: 02 May 2024 (2024) Cite this article; Download PDF. Annals ... Article PDF. Download to read the full article text Use our pre-submission checklist. Avoid common mistakes on your manuscript. Funding. No financial or material support was received ...
case series, three articles were systematic reviews, one was a narrative review, and two lacked radiological findings. Additionally, three articles were in languages other than English, and 13 articles did not meet the eligibility criteria. Consequently, seven articles were deemed suitable and included in the review (Figure 1). Data Extraction
Request PDF | Systematic Literature Review | With the abounding literature, a rigorous framework with concrete steps is needed for synthesising the breadth, depth and accuracy of published ...