A Study on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery in Cyber Security

In twenty first century, computing and the use of Internet have become omnipresent across the globe. The Internet is everywhere we cannot walk more than 20 feet in an urban area without finding an open connection. Ensuring the integrity of computer networks, both in relation to security and with regard to the institutional life of the nation in general, is a growing concern. Security and defense networks, proprietary research, intellectual property, and data based market mechanisms that depend on unimpeded and undistorted access, can all be severely compromised by malicious intrusions. We need to find the best way to protect these systems. In addition we need techniques to detect security breaches. This paper is a study on Data Mining, Cyber Security and various Data Mining Techniques that are being used for cyber security.