Big Data Security & Privacy

Welcome to the Big Data Security and Privacy Course Website

The University of Texas at Dallas

About the Course

CS 6301

Big Data Security and Privacy

“Welcome to the web page of the Big Data Security and Privacy Course taught at UT Dallas. We have taught this course during Fall 2020, Fall 2021,   Fall 2022, and Fall 2023. The material was developed on an NSF Grant. The lectures are divided into six modules as follows: (i) Background for Big Data Security and Privacy, (ii) Concepts in Big Data Security and Privacy, (iii) Infrastructure for Big data Security and Privacy based on Cloud Computing, (iv) Big Data Security and Privacy Functions, Applications for Big data Security and Privacy based on Social Media, and (vi) Emerging Directions for Big Data Security and Privacy. The lectures are based on the course we taught in Fall 2022. The course was evaluated by an independent evaluation in Fall 2022 and out findings were published in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Big Data Security in May 2024.”

Introduction to the Course

Course Content

Lectures are grouped into modules.

Module 1: Background for Big Data Security and Privacy

  • Topics include: (i) Cyber Security; (ii) Secure Data Management; (iii) malware, (iv) Data Mining for Malware Detection; (v) Data Privacy, (vi) Big Data Management and Analytics, (vii) Semantic web

Module 2: Big Data Security and Privacy Concepts

  • Topics include (i) Big Data Security and Privacy: Developments and Directions; (ii) Secure Data Science/AI (iii) Big Data Inference Controllers. (iv) Big Data Tools and Security

Module 3: Infrastructures for Big Data Security and Privacy - Cloud

  • Topics include (i) Introduction to Secure SOA and Cloud Computing, (ii) Secure Cloud Computing for Assured Information Sharing, (iii) Access Control for the Cloud, (iv) Hadoop and MapReduce Security

Module 4: Big Data Security and Privacy Functions

  • Topics include (i) Access Control Model for Big Data, (ii) Secure Big Data Query Processing with HIVE, (iii) Secure Big Data Processing with Semantic Web, (iv) Secure Big Data Storage, (v) Privacy model for Big Data, (vi) Big Data Governance, (vii) Example Secure Big Data System

Module 5: Big Data Security and Privacy Applications – Social Media

  • Topics include (i) Security and Privacy for Online Social Networks, (ii) Attacks on Social Media,  (iii) Social Media Governance, (iv) Fake news detection. In addition, the representation of social media using semantic web will also be discussed  to provide context.

Module 6: Directions for Big Data Security and Privacy

  • Topics include (i) Data Science for Cyber Security, (ii) Adversarial Machine Learning, (iii) Cloud computing for implementing machine learning techniques or malware detection, (iv) Data Science Applications for IoT Security, (iv) Blockchain, Data Science and Security, (v) Security and Knowledge Graphs, (vi) Quantum Information Processing for Big Data.

Instructor

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham

Founders Chair Professor (2019-Present)

Founding Director Cyber Security Institute (2004-2021)

Senior Strategist, Cyber Security and Data Science (2021 – Present)

Co-Director, Women in Cyber Security and Women in Data Science Centers (2016 – Present)

The University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, Texas

Personal Website

Contact

Dr. Bhavani Thuraisingham

bxt043000@utdallas.edu

972-883-4738

Teaching Assistant

Varies Every Semester

800 W. Campbell Road

Richardson, Texas 75080-3021

The University of Texas at Dallas