Online Assignment #1

Kai Marshall

I believe that cybercrime link analysis is an important feature to factor in while

keeping track of online cyber crime. First to understand why CyberCrime Link Analysis

is important we need to know what it is first. Link Analysis is “a data analysis technique

that examines relationships among people, places, and things. As a visual tool, link

analysis provides users a powerful method to quickly understand and ‘see’ what is

happening.” Basically insinuating that it's a tool that analyzes past and present

relationships amongst people or things and make them known to understand the

correlation if an event like a cyber crime were to happen. This technique is widely used

in companies involving banks, insurance companies.

CyberCrime Link Analysis has been beneficial in the CyberCrime world helping

detect illegal activities like fraud detection, counter terrorism, computer security

analysis, search engine optimization, market research, medical research, and art. There

are still recurring issues that happen even in this generation, for example the amount of

data structured or stored within a system can give the Link Analysis tool to many

unrelated sources. Though this is one of the minor issues, networks are studied in either

matrices or groups and a network can also be represented by a set of nodes and ties

representing their interaction.

 Cyber Crime Link Analysis helps many organizations by establishing a process

that is “finding connections between different entities, such as connecting customers to

other customers or customer to products. Link analysis not only establishes the

connection, it also provides information about how other variables or attributes can be

used to characterize the type of link as well as its strength. In particular, link analysis is

critical for mapping and then understanding spheres of influence”. The benefits in using

Link Analysis are to show how closely connected groups or customers are towards

other groups or customers, the collection of data upon each group or customer linked

with an attribute that pertains to them like an item they bought or just demographic

values, The speed at which the communication flows throughout the social network.

Given this particular benefit, many public safety agencies already use some sort of link

analysis tool to analyze their data.

Sources:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/computer-science/link-analysis

https://www.interpol.int/en/News-and-Events/News/2020/INTERPOL-report-shows-

alarming-rate-of-cyberattacks-during-COVID-19