Network Intrusion Detection Using Machine Learning Techniques/Makine Öğrenmesi Teknikleri Kullanılarak Ağ Saldırı Tespit Sistemi

Year 2018, Volume: 2 Issue: 1, 115 - 123, 01.07.2018

Oğuz Ata Khalid Kadhim

Abstract

Abstract

Recently, it has become important to use advanced intrusion detection techniques to protect networks from the

developing network attacks, which are becoming more complex and difficult to detect. For this reason, machine

learning techniques have been employed in the Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), so that, more complex features

can be detected in the characteristics of the packets incoming to the network. As these techniques require training

data, many datasets are collected for this purpose. Some of these datasets have known issues that limit the

ability to apply intrusion detection systems built, based on these datasets, in real-life applications.

In this study, the existing intrusion datasets are illustrated alongside with the known issues of each dataset, as well

as, the existing intrusion detection systems that employ machine learning techniques and use these datasets, are

discussed. As machine learning techniques extract different knowledge from different datasets, and each technique

has different approaches to extract that knowledge, the performance of each technique is different from

one dataset to another. The results of the discussed studies show the great potential of using machine learning

techniques to implement IDS, where the Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) have shown the highest average performance,

among other machine learning techniques.

Keywords

Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Network, Intrusion Detection Systems

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