Network Security and Social Network Analysis in Data Mining

Data mining can be a controlling tool for extracting useful information from tons of data. The growing popularity and development of data mining technologies is a serious threat to the security of individual's sensitive information. Data mining is a collection of stores and organizes data for use in areas such as medicine, finance, intelligence, law enforcement, security, logistics, education, and process control. Key to avoiding the pitfalls is a basic understanding of what data mining is a network security and planning a data mining project. A social network is defined as a social structure of individuals, who are related based on a common relation of interest. The basic motivation is the demand to exploit knowledge from copious amount of data collections, pertaining to social behavior of user in online environments.