EC-Council
Data Science for Cybersecurity
What this course answers
A four-hour intermediate course on applying data science to cyber threats. You collect and preprocess security data, apply supervised and unsupervised machine learning to threat detection, use neural networks and NLP to spot malicious patterns in problems such as malware and phishing, and evaluate models with ethics and regulation in mind.
Last verified25 Sep 2026
What you will be able to do
- Understand the threat landscape and where data science helps defence
- Collect, preprocess and analyse cybersecurity data
- Apply machine learning techniques to threat detection
- Use neural networks and NLP to identify malicious patterns
- Evaluate model performance with ethics and compliance in mind
Curriculum
Prerequisites
- Not stated on the course page