I don’t know about for hackers but for defenders, topic maps may be overkill for cybersecurity.
I say “overkill” because the average victim isn’t facing a highly skilled and dedicated opponent.
They are facing script kiddies and are vulnerable because of their own ineptitude.
If you are already inept, topic maps aren’t going to help you. Not with cybersecurity or any other mission critical issue.
Doubtful?
Read James A. Lewis, Raising the Bar for Cybersecurity in full but consider these four facts:
- More than 90% of the successful breaches required on the most basic techniques.
- 85% of breaches took months to be discovered; the average time is five months.
- 96% of successful breaches could have been avoided if the victim had put in simple or intermediate controls.
- 75% of attacks use publicly known vulnerabilities in commercial software that could be prevented by regular patching.
The only commercial opportunity I see for topic maps, other than for A game players to keep their competitive edge, would be mapping the vulnerabilities of commercial software by versions/patches.
Just to save hackers from exposing themselves on the web searching for appropriate hacks.