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Within the past few decades, cybersecurity has grown from individual concerns to a national-level issue. With such an explosive growth, there has been a discrepancy between the increasing demand for a better cybersecurity knowledge base and cybersecurity workers who are struggling to keep up. Government, academia, and the private sector have taken initiatives in order to fulfill these discrepancies with varying methods and levels of success. Additionally, considerable amount of research for each sector spanning across multiple disciplines have been conducted. However, there is a lack of a holistic view on cybersecurity knowledge among these three sectors and the relationships that exist between them. This research paper aims to explore the current cybersecurity ecosystem in order to allow future researchers and practitioners to understand and broaden the full scope cybersecurity knowledge. In order to achieve our research goal, we use an ontological network and identify key relationships that exist within all three sectors.

DAN KIM