How are we doing against crime and terror today? This is a hot debate topic even to this day. But the bigger question which we should consider is the role played by technology. While the Internet is being intelligently used as the medium of communication, propagation tool by the terrorists, there has to be an alert, and any  possibility of cyber terrorist attack in future should not be ignored!

Data mining is recognized as the pivotal technology for combating terrorism and ensuring security of the homeland. There is a lot of research taking place on data mining techniques such as link analysis, trend discovery, real time data mining, predictive analysis and more. Researchers are developing a series of new automated algorithms for discovering frequent patterns in terrorism databases and other information repositories.

An intelligent data mining software agent is an autonomous program designed to perform human like function over the Internet. These intelligent agents are responsible for filtering and organizing scattered data from unstructured web document. The area of text based searching, which is the integral part of crime related systems seems to be very close to its maturity. we should see more commercial systems implementing this super technology within next few years if not earlier!

In the recent news article, a technologist said ” add analytics on top of the data to strengthen data mining and its possible for patterns to emerge!” yes, it is definitely possible as these patterns could point out possible terrorists. Thus,  aiding the government efforts to keep the citizens safe and secure. Therefore, let the data miners move ahead to predict and analyze for a better future!

[DefenceWeb] and [UT Dallas]