Poster: System thinking of the Software Vulnerability Market via Complex Network Theory

Uncovering the patterns of the software vulnerabilities can be helpful for the policy making to remove or reduce the effect of software vulnerabilities. In order to understand the emerging pattern in the software vulnerabilities, taking advantage of the complex network theory, this paper considers the software vulnerability market as a dynamic complex system and then proposes a heterogeneous network model to represent its evolution over time. The preliminary empirical result uncovers the universal scale-free property, which inspires the further complex network study for the software vulnerability market. Keywords— Software Vulnerability Market, Complex Network, System Thinking, Heterogeneous Network Model, Scale-free