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INSS 755 DATA WAREHOUSING AND MINING
Prerequisite: INSS 650
Credit 3
This course provides a comprehensive study of the business potential of data
warehousing, including techniques for designing and maintaining large data
warehouses as well as how to effectively use data warehouses for business
advantage. Topics include OLAP, star schemas, data integration, data cleaning,
maintenance of views in the presence of updates to the sources, and query
processing of warehouses, data mining techniques such as classification,
clustering, association rules, mining of time-series and complex data. The
course presents a current and futuristic view of decision support data
repositories, and discusses several successful applications of data warehousing.

INSS 765 INFORMATION MEASURES
Former course number 665
Prerequisites: INSS 615, 630
Credit 3
This course focuses upon the theory of quantitative methods of information
measurement. Measurement functions and syntactic, semantic and pragmatic
levels of information measures and their application in communication systems
will be examined.

INSS 770 AUDITING, MONITORING, AND DETECTION INTRUSION
Prerequisite: INSS 735
Credit 3
A detailed study of the methodologies, techniques and tools for auditing,
monitoring, and detection of problems or intrusions in computer systems or
networks and their environments. Emphasis is on strategies for preventing and
detecting unwanted process activity and recovering from malicious behavior.
Topics include: types of threats, host-based and network-based information
sources, vulnerability analysis, denial of service, deploying and managing
intrusion detection systems, passive vs. active responses, designing recovery
solutions. Operational and administrative security measures contributing to
detection activities are also covered. Case studies and exercises will be used to
evaluate security operations.

INSS 773 DIGITAL BUSINESS SECURITY
Prerequisite: INSS 650
Credit 3

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