Data Mining and Its Cyber Security

Data mining techniques are being investigated to find out who the suspicious people are and who is capable of carrying out terrorist activities. Cyber security is concerned with protecting the computer and network systems against corruption due to Trojan horses and viruses. In this paper, firstly, data mining and cyber security are briefly introduced. Some classic data mining techniques utilized in the development are then introduced, such as the Markov model, SVMs, ANNs, ARM, the problem of classification, and image classification, which is an aspect of image mining. Thirdly, data mining for cyber security applications, such as cyber terrorism, malicious Intrusions, credit card fraud and identity theft, attacks on critical infrastructures, are outlined in detail. Finally, current research and development is reviewed. Some conclusions are given at the end of the paper.