Application of Big Data for National Security: A Practitioner's Guide to Emerging Technologies
- 7h 17m
- Babak Akhgar, et al.
- Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
- 2015
Application of Big Data for National Security provides users with state-of-the-art concepts, methods, and technologies for Big Data analytics in the fight against terrorism and crime, including a wide range of case studies and application scenarios. This book combines expertise from an international team of experts in law enforcement, national security, and law, as well as computer sciences, criminology, linguistics, and psychology, creating a unique cross-disciplinary collection of knowledge and insights into this increasingly global issue.
The strategic frameworks and critical factors presented in Application of Big Data for National Security consider technical, legal, ethical, and societal impacts, but also practical considerations of Big Data system design and deployment, illustrating how data and security concerns intersect. In identifying current and future technical and operational challenges it supports law enforcement and government agencies in their operational, tactical and strategic decisions when employing Big Data for national security
- Contextualizes the Big Data concept and how it relates to national security and crime detection and prevention
- Presents strategic approaches for the design, adoption, and deployment of Big Data technologies in preventing terrorism and reducing crime
- Includes a series of case studies and scenarios to demonstrate the application of Big Data in a national security context
- Indicates future directions for Big Data as an enabler of advanced crime prevention and detection
In this Book
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Foreword by Lord Carlile of Berriew
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An Introduction to Big Data
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Drilling into the Big Data Gold Mine—Data Fusion and High-Performance Analytics for Intelligence Professionals
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Harnessing the Power of Big Data to Counter International Terrorism
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Big Data and Law Enforcement—Advances, Implications, and Lessons from an Active Shooter Case Study
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Interpretation and Insider Threat—Rereading the Anthrax Mailings of 2001 Through a “Big Data” Lens
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Critical Infrastructure Protection by Harnessing Big Data
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Military and Big Data Revolution
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Cybercrime—Attack Motivations and Implications for Big Data and National Security
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Requirements and Challenges for Big Data Architectures
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Tools and Technologies for the Implementation of Big Data
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Mining Social Media—Architecture, Tools, and Approaches to Detecting Criminal Activity
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Making Sense of Unstructured Natural Language Information
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Literature Mining and Ontology Mapping Applied to Big Data
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Big Data Concerns in Autonomous AI Systems
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The Legal Challenges of Big Data Application in Law Enforcement
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Big Data and the Italian Legal Framework—Opportunities for Police Forces
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Accounting for Cultural Influences in Big Data Analytics
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Making Sense of the Noise—An ABC Approach to Big Data and Security
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Glossary
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