Future Trends in Cybersecurity: A Meta-Review

The increasing importance of cybersecurity in protecting digital assets, data and infrastructures necessitates a reevaluation of research priorities within the discipline. As of today, numerous emerging cybersecurity topics are gaining significant importance in both academic research and industry applications. To identify recent trends in cybersecurity topics, this study extracts scholarly articles from two prestigious academic databases, the ACM Digital Library, and Google Scholar, covering the period from early 2015 to late 2024.Through a systematic identification of trends and focal points in cybersecurity research, a comprehensive analysis is facilitated, including Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Biterm Topic Modeling (BTM), keyword frequencies, and Ngrams. The findings reveal a pronounced emphasis on areas such as Blockchain and Security while underscoring the relative underrepresentation of topics like Incident Response and Vulnerability Assessment. These observations suggest potential avenues for future research. This methodical approach delineates the current state of cybersecurity research and highlights areas where further studies could significantly advance the field