SUMMARY
The
course will discuss data mining technologies in detail and
then examine their applications to counter-terrorism. In
particular, we will discuss how data mining could help with
national security problems such as detecting and preventing
terrorism, cyber security problems such as detecting malicious
intrusions and other topics such as insider threat analysis
and handling real-time threats such as credit card fraud detection.
OBJECTIVE
The
course will be divided into four parts: Part I will provide
an overview of the supporting technologies for data mining
such as database management, data warehousing, statistical
reasoning and machine learning. Part II will give an introduction
to data mining and discuss the outcomes, methodologies and
techniques as well as provide an overview of the tools applications
and directions. Part III will describe data mining techniques
in detail. The techniques covered will include market basket
analysis, decision trees, and link analysis, nearest neighbor,
neural networks and genetic algorithms. Part IV will examine
the application of data mining for counter-terrorism.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND
This
course will be useful for anyone interested in learning about
data mining. It will provide fair amount of details of the
technologies and the techniques. Then for each technique we
will examine its application for counter-terrorism. It will
also be useful for those developing data mining techniques
as well as managers of data mining projects. Finally, it will
be extremely useful for counter-terrorism experts to learn
about data mining.
COURSE OUTLINE: Data Mining Technologies and Applications in Business Intelligence and National Security
Introduction to the Course
Supporting Technologies for Data Mining
Introduction to Data Mining
Data Mining Techniques
Data Mining for Business Intelligence
Data Mining for Security Applications
Prototypes and Experimental Systems
Conclusion of the Course
Reference Books
Web Data Mining Technologies and Their Applications in Business Intelligence and Counter-terrorism
Author: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: June 2003
Database and Applications Security: Integrating Data Management and Information Security
Author: Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Publisher: CRC Press
Date: March 2005
Lecturer
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham
Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham has recently joined University of Texas, Dallas as a Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Cyber Security Research Center at the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering. She is a Fellow of the IEEE (Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers) and AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science). She received IEEE Computer Society’s prestigious 1997 Technical Achievement Award for “outstanding and innovative contributions to secure data management”.
Dr. Thuraisingham’s research in information security and information management has resulted in over 70 journal articles, over 200 refereed conference papers, and three US patents. She is the author of seven books in data management, data mining and data security including one on data mining for counter-terrorism. She has given over 30 keynote presentations at various research conferences and has also given invited talks at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and at the United Nations on Data Mining for counter-terrorism. She serves (or has served) on editorial boards of top research journals.
Prior to joining UTD, Dr. Thuraisingham was an IPA (Intergovernmental Personnel Act) at the National Science Foundation from the MITRE Corporation. At NSF she established the Data and Applications Security Program and co-founded the Cyber Trust theme and was involved in inter-agency activities in data mining for counter-terrorism. She was at MITRE between January 1989 and June 2005 and has worked in MITRE's Information Security Center and was later a department head in Data and Information Management as well as Chief Scientist in Data Management. She has served as an expert consultant in information security and data management to the Department of Defense, the Department of Treasury and the Intelligence Community for over 10 years. Thuraisingham’s industry experience includes six years of research and development at Control Data Corporation and Honeywell Inc.
Dr Thuraisingham is the Founding President of “Bhavani Security Consulting” a company providing services in consulting and training in Cyber Security and Information Technology. She serves as an expert software consultant to the Treasury on corporate research credit issues and advises Treasury counsel on software related court cases. She is also interested in the developments, challenges and issues associated with Intellectual Property management and writes articles on this topic as well as conducts technology strategy surveys and forecasting for Corporations.
Dr. Thuraisingham was educated in the United Kingdom both at the University of Bristol and at the University of Wales.
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