Analyzing and Securing Social Networks

Section VII

Social Media Application Systems

INTRODUCTION TO SECTION VII

While Section VI discussed our prototypes on social media systems, in Section VII we will dis-

cuss the use of social media systems for various applications. In particular, we will discuss the use

of social media for insider threat detection, bioterrorism applications, and detection of suspicious

activities.

Section VII consists of four chapters: Chapters 27 through 30. Chapter 27 will discuss our

approach to insider threat detection. We represent the insiders and their communication as Resource

Description Framework (RDF) graphs, and then query and mine the graphs to extract ...