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Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are a fundamental tool in cybersecurity. Their ability to generalize across diverse networks is a critical factor in their effectiveness and a prerequisite for real-world applications. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Marco Cantone , Claudio Marrocco , Alessandro Bria

IDS aims to protect computer networks from security threats by detecting, notifying, and taking appropriate action to prevent illegal access and protect confidential information. As the globe becomes increasingly dependent on technology and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Sudhanshu Sekhar Tripathy , Bichitrananda Behera

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) applications in our daily lives has led to a surge in data traffic, posing significant security challenges. IoT applications using cloud and edge computing are at higher risk of cyberattacks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-05-01 Afsaneh Mahanipour , Hana Khamfroush

Many of the proposed machine learning (ML) based network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) achieve near perfect detection performance when evaluated on synthetic benchmark datasets. Though, there is no record of if and how these results…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

Network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) to detect malicious attacks continue to meet challenges. NIDS are often developed offline while they face auto-generated port scan infiltration attempts, resulting in a significant time lag from…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-09 Zong-Zhi Lin , Thomas D. Pike , Mark M. Bailey , Nathaniel D. Bastian

The use of Machine Learning (ML) models in cybersecurity solutions requires high-quality data that is stripped of redundant, missing, and noisy information. By selecting the most relevant features, data integrity and model efficiency can be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-13 Miguel Silva , João Vitorino , Eva Maia , Isabel Praça

Data-driven cyberthreat detection has become a crucial defense technique in modern cybersecurity. Network defense, supported by Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs), has also increasingly adopted data-driven approaches, leading to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Patrik Goldschmidt , Daniela Chudá

As network security threats evolve, safeguarding flow-based Machine Learning (ML)-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) from evasion adversarial attacks is crucial. This paper introduces the notion of feature perturb-ability and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Mohamed elShehaby , Ashraf Matrawy

Cybersecurity has become one of the focuses of organisations. The number of cyberattacks keeps increasing as Internet usage continues to grow. An intrusion detection system (IDS) is an alarm system that helps to detect cyberattacks. As new…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Tuan-Hong Chua , Iftekhar Salam

The Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the main research fields in the Cybersecurity domain. This is due to (a) the increased dependency on automated device, and (b) the inadequacy of general purpose Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) to be…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-11-17 Hanan Hindy , Ethan Bayne , Miroslav Bures , Robert Atkinson , Christos Tachtatzis , Xavier Bellekens

Over the past few decades, Industrial Control Systems (ICSs) have been targeted by cyberattacks and are becoming increasingly vulnerable as more ICSs are connected to the internet. Using Machine Learning (ML) for Intrusion Detection Systems…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Alireza Dehlaghi-Ghadim , Mahshid Helali Moghadam , Ali Balador , Hans Hansson

A growing issue in the modern cyberspace world is the direct identification of malicious activity over network connections. The boom of the machine learning industry in the past few years has led to the increasing usage of machine learning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-10-05 Jinoh Kim , Caitlin Sim , Jinhwan Choi

Cybersecurity remains a critical challenge in the digital age, with network traffic flow anomaly detection being a key pivotal instrument in the fight against cyber threats. In this study, we address the prevalent issue of data integrity in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Adrian Pekar , Richard Jozsa

Supervised detection of network attacks has always been a critical part of network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Nowadays, in a pivotal time for artificial intelligence (AI), with even more sophisticated attacks that utilize advanced…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Iakovos-Christos Zarkadis , Christos Douligeris

Machine Learning (ML) techniques are becoming an invaluable support for network intrusion detection, especially in revealing anomalous flows, which often hide cyber-threats. Typically, ML algorithms are exploited to classify/recognize data…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Mario Di Mauro , Giovanni Galatro , Giancarlo Fortino , Antonio Liotta

This paper presents the FlowTransformer framework, a novel approach for implementing transformer-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs). FlowTransformer leverages the strengths of transformer models in identifying the long-term…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Liam Daly Manocchio , Siamak Layeghy , Wai Weng Lo , Gayan K. Kulatilleke , Mohanad Sarhan , Marius Portmann

The uses of Machine Learning (ML) in detection of network attacks have been effective when designed and evaluated in a single organisation. However, it has been very challenging to design an ML-based detection system by utilising…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Mohanad Sarhan , Siamak Layeghy , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) play a crucial role in safeguarding network infrastructure against cyberattacks. As the prevalence and sophistication of these attacks increase, machine learning and deep neural network approaches…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Mabin Umman Varghese , Zahra Taghiyarrenani

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionised natural language processing tasks, particularly as chat agents. However, their applicability to threat detection problems remains unclear. This paper examines the feasibility of employing…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Paul R. B. Houssel , Priyanka Singh , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

With the wide application of IoT and industrial IoT technologies, the network structure is becoming more and more complex, and the traffic scale is growing rapidly, which makes the traditional security protection mechanism face serious…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Qiuyan Xiang , Shuang Wu , Dongze Wu , Yuxin Liu , Zhenkai Qin