The Internet and the WWW are critical to terrorist/global guerrilla communications. Intelligent Defense host John Robb talks with Dr. Mark Last of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel whose teams are working on a project to apply advanced data mining techniques to unearth terrorist activity on the Internet. Dr. Last co-authored a paper, Using Data Mining Techniques for Detecting Terror-Related Activities on the Web (PDF) that provides detail on the approach. This proposed system works in conjunction with an ISP (with or without their permission) to determine potential terrorist activity. If applied to ISPs (and potentially Internet Cafes) across the Middle East, it might provide a means of detecting patterns of behavior that may be used to prevent attacks.

This program is one of a series entitled Intelligent Defense hosted by John Robb. For more information, visit John's Global Guerillas web site.