6 Analyzing Social Networks to Prevent Security Incidents

In the last three chapters on graph theory, we’ve built graphs from a snapshot of a network at a particular moment in time; that is, we’ve worked from fixed, historical data. But finding and responding to events in the past always leaves the white hats one step behind the black hats. If we want to know more about what happened before or after the time captured in the data, we need new analytic techniques. The future requires predictive analytics, a branch of mathematics that aims to statistically determine the probability of future or past events given some set of known observations. ...

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