Ensemble Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection Using a Novel Network Attack Dataset †
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Department of Computer Science, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA
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Department of Information Systems, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN 56301, USA
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This paper is an extension of Comparative Analysis of ML Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection, originally presented at the Fourth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology.
Future Internet 2020, 12(11), 180; https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12110180
Received: 5 October 2020
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Revised: 19 October 2020
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Accepted: 20 October 2020
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Published: 26 October 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Cybercrime Detection)
Due to the extensive use of computer networks, new risks have arisen, and improving the speed and accuracy of security mechanisms has become a critical need. Although new security tools have been developed, the fast growth of malicious activities continues to be a pressing issue that creates severe threats to network security. Classical security tools such as firewalls are used as a first-line defense against security problems. However, firewalls do not entirely or perfectly eliminate intrusions. Thus, network administrators rely heavily on intrusion detection systems (IDSs) to detect such network intrusion activities. Machine learning (ML) is a practical approach to intrusion detection that, based on data, learns how to differentiate between abnormal and regular traffic. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of some existing ML classifiers for identifying intrusions in network traffic. It also produces a new reliable dataset called GTCS (Game Theory and Cyber Security) that matches real-world criteria and can be used to assess the performance of the ML classifiers in a detailed experimental evaluation. Finally, the paper proposes an ensemble and adaptive classifier model composed of multiple classifiers with different learning paradigms to address the issue of the accuracy and false alarm rate in IDSs. Our classifiers show high precision and recall rates and use a comprehensive set of features compared to previous work.
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Keywords:
IDS; ensemble classifier; intrusion detection; ML; GTCS dataset
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Mahfouz, A.; Abuhussein, A.; Venugopal, D.; Shiva, S. Ensemble Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection Using a Novel Network Attack Dataset. Future Internet 2020, 12, 180. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12110180
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Mahfouz A, Abuhussein A, Venugopal D, Shiva S. Ensemble Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection Using a Novel Network Attack Dataset. Future Internet. 2020; 12(11):180. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12110180
Chicago/Turabian StyleMahfouz, Ahmed, Abdullah Abuhussein, Deepak Venugopal, and Sajjan Shiva. 2020. "Ensemble Classifiers for Network Intrusion Detection Using a Novel Network Attack Dataset" Future Internet 12, no. 11: 180. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12110180
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