International Journal of Advanced Research in Computer Science and Electronics Engineering

Data mining is the process that attempts to discover patterns in large data sets. The actual data mining task is the automatic or semiautomatic analysis of large quantities of data to extract previously unknown interesting patterns such as groups of data records i.e.cluster analysis, unusual records (anomaly detection) and dependencies association rule mining. This usually involves using database techniques such as spatial indexes. These patterns can then be seen as a kind of summary of the input data, and may be used in further analysis or, for example, in machine learning and predictive analytics. As the internet has been involved in all areas of human activity, there are increasing concerns that data mining may pose a threat to our privacy and security then security would be one of the major issues to monitor. In this paper we present recent research on data mining and its security. We prepare a survey report on data mining for crime detection.