Business Analytics - Data Security

Catalog description

The massive increase in the rate of novel cyber-attacks has made data-mining-based techniques a critical component in detecting security threats. The course covers various applications of data mining in computer and network security. Topics include: Overview of the state of information security; malware detection; network and host intrusion detection; web, email, and social network security; authentication and authorization anomaly detection; alert correlation; and potential issues such as privacy issues and adversarial machine learning. Not open to students with credit in IST 435. Prerequisite: BSAN 710 and BSAN 726 or concurrent enrollment.