Investigation on Research Ethics and Building a Benchmark
Shun Inagaki, Robert Ramirez, Masaki Shimaoka, Kenichi Magata

TL;DR
This paper develops a cyber security research ethics knowledge base using machine learning and manual analysis, aiming to guide researchers in ethical decision-making and address the lack of specific ethics standards in the field.
Contribution
It introduces a novel ethics knowledge base and decision tree interface for cyber security research, filling a gap in ethical guidelines and aiding researchers in ethical considerations.
Findings
Constructed an ethics knowledge base from top conference papers.
Created a decision tree interface for ethical decision support.
Applicable to various research areas beyond cyber security.
Abstract
When dealing with leading edge cyber security research, especially when operating from the perspective of an attacker or a red team, it becomes necessary for one to at times consider how ethics comes into play. There are currently no cyber security-specific ethics standards, which in particular is one reason more adversarial cyber security research lags behind in Japan. In this research, using machine learning and manual methods we extracted best practices for research ethics from past top conference papers. Using this knowledge we constructed an ethics knowledge base for cyber security research. Such a knowledge base can be used to properly distinguish grey-area research so that it is not wrongly forbidden. Using a decision tree-style user interface that we created for our knowledge base, researchers may be able to efficiently identify which aspects of their research require ethical…
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Taxonomy
TopicsHate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Information and Cyber Security
