Chapter 2

Primer on Analytical Software and Tools

Abstract

This chapter includes introductory material pertaining to analysis software and tools that are helpful in identifying potential security breaches. Tools and software include statistical programming applications, databases, big data techniques, and simulation software.

Keywords

Control limits; Correlation; Excel; Hadoop; Logistic regression; Mahout; MapReduce; Outlier detection; Outliers; R; Security analytics; Software
Information in this Chapter
▪ Introduction to Statistical Programming Tools
▪ Introduction to Databases and Big Data techniques
▪ Introduction to Simulation Software

Introduction

In this chapter, we will introduce some freely available, open source software and programming languages ...

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