Cyber Analytics

Cyber Analytics is a branch of analytics that applies to the domain of computers, networks, and their related data. Cyber analytics is the science of analysis as it relates to computers and computer networks. Analysis is the process of arriving at a decision based on observable facts (data). A scientific approach compares observations to hypothetical models. Thus, cyber analytics helps computer administrators to understand the behavior of computers and computer networks from the data these systems use and generate. Cyber analytics tells the story behind cyber data. There are potentially many stories depending on the purposes and perspective of the analyst. Cyber analytics can be used to support computer security or simply network administration. Cyber analysis tools and methods must be sensitive to the needs of the analyst so that they enable sense-making without forcing the analyst toward particular conclusions or uses of the data.