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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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