Cybersecurity Analytics

Author : "Rakesh M. Verma (University of Houston, Texas, USA)"

Hardback

Published : Wednesday 13 November 2019

ISBN : 9780367346010

Price : €132.55

Description

This book organizes in one place the mathematics, probability, statistics and machine learning information that is required for a practitioner of cybersecurity analytics, as well as the basics of cybersecurity needed for a practitioner--

Cybersecurity Analytics is for the cybersecurity student and professional who wants to learn data science techniques critical for tackling cybersecurity challenges, and for the data science student and professional who wants to learn about cybersecurity adaptations. Trying to build a malware detector, a phishing email detector, or just interested in finding patterns in your datasets? This book can let you do it on your own. Numerous examples and datasets links are included so that the reader can learn by doing. Anyone with a basic college-level calculus course and some probability knowledge can easily understand most of the material. The book includes chapters containing: unsupervised learning, semi-supervised learning, supervised learning, text mining, natural language processing, and more. It also includes background on security, statistics, and linear algebra. The website for the book contains a listing of datasets, updates, and other resources for serious practitioners.

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