Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection is the first book to outline how data mining technologies can be used to combat crime in the 21st century. It introduces security managers, law enforcement investigators, counter-intelligence agents, fraud specialists, and information security analysts to data mining techniques and shows how they can be used as investigative tools. Readers will learn how to search public and private databases and networks to flag potential security threats and root out criminal activities even before they occur. This groundbreaking book reviews the latest data mining technologies including intelligent agents, link analysis, text mining, decision trees, self-organizing maps, machine learning, and neural networks. Using clear, understandable language, it explains the application of these technologies in such areas as computer and network security, fraud prevention, crime prevention, and national defense. International case studies throughout the book further illustrate how these technologies can be used to aid in crime prevention. The book will also serve as an indispensable resource for software developers and vendors as they design new products for the law enforcement and intelligence communities. Key Features:
About the Author Jes s Mena is a data mining consultant and a former artificial intelligence specialist for the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the U.S. He has over 15 years of experience in the field and is the author of the best-selling Data Mining Your Website and WebMining for Profit. His articles have been widely published in key publications in the information technology, Internet, marketing, and artificial intelligence fields. |