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Due to an exponential increase in the number of cyber-attacks, the need for improved Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) is apparent than ever. In this regard, Machine Learning (ML) techniques are playing a pivotal role in the early…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Kathryn-Ann Tait , Jan Sher Khan , Fehaid Alqahtani , Awais Aziz Shah , Fadia Ali Khan , Mujeeb Ur Rehman , Wadii Boulila , Jawad Ahmad

The use of supervised Machine Learning (ML) to enhance Intrusion Detection Systems has been the subject of significant research. Supervised ML is based upon learning by example, demanding significant volumes of representative instances for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Hanan Hindy , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson , David Brosset , Miroslav Bures , Ivan Andonovic , Craig Michie , Xavier Bellekens

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) have progressively shifted from signature-based techniques toward machine learning and, more recently, deep learning methods. Meanwhile, the widespread adoption of encryption has reduced payload…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Abdelkader El Mahdaouy , Issam Ait Yahia , Soufiane Oualil , Ismail Berrada

The constantly evolving digital transformation imposes new requirements on our society. Aspects relating to reliance on the networking domain and the difficulty of achieving security by design pose a challenge today. As a result,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-01-20 Gustavo de Carvalho Bertoli , Lourenço Alves Pereira Junior , Aldri Luiz dos Santos , Osamu Saotome

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) has become pervasive, and its deployment in Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) is inevitable due to its automated nature and high accuracy compared to traditional models in processing and classifying large…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Mohamed elShehaby , Ashraf Matrawy

Deep learning-based fine-grained network intrusion detection systems (NIDS) enable different attacks to be responded to in a fast and targeted manner with the help of large-scale labels. However, the cost of labeling causes insufficient…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Xinran Zheng , Shuo Yang , Xingjun Wang

Machine Learning (ML) approaches have been used to enhance the detection capabilities of Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDSs). Recent work has achieved near-perfect performance by following binary- and multi-class network anomaly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Mohanad Sarhan , Gayan Kulatilleke , Wai Weng Lo , Siamak Layeghy , Marius Portmann

Recent advances in deep learning renewed the research interests in machine learning for Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS). Specifically, attention has been given to sequential learning models, due to their ability to extract the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-07-06 Andrea Corsini , Shanchieh Jay Yang , Giovanni Apruzzese

AI/ML-based intrusion detection systems (IDSs) and misbehavior detection systems (MDSs) have shown great potential in identifying anomalies in the network traffic of networked autonomous systems. Despite the vast research efforts, practical…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-05-10 Opeyemi Ajibuwa , Bechir Hamdaoui , Attila A. Yavuz

Despite extensive research on Machine Learning-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (ML-NIDS), their capability to detect diverse attack variants remains uncertain. Prior studies have largely relied on homogeneous datasets, which…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Xin Fan Guo , Albert Merono Penuela , Sergio Maffeis , Fabio Pierazzi

Graph-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (GNIDS) have gained significant momentum in detecting sophisticated cyber-attacks, such as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs), within and across organizational boundaries. Though achieving…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Jiacen Xu , Chenang Li , Yu Zheng , Zhou Li

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) have been extensively investigated by monitoring real network traffic and analyzing suspicious activities. However, there are limitations in detecting specific types of attacks with NIDS, such as…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-06-19 Zhiyan Chen , Murat Simsek , Burak Kantarci , Mehran Bagheri , Petar Djukic

This paper investigates the temporal analysis of NetFlow datasets for machine learning (ML)-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). Although many previous studies have highlighted the critical role of temporal features, such as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Majed Luay , Siamak Layeghy , Seyedehfaezeh Hosseininoorbin , Mohanad Sarhan , Nour Moustafa , Marius Portmann

Machine learning (ML), especially deep learning (DL) techniques have been increasingly used in anomaly-based network intrusion detection systems (NIDS). However, ML/DL has shown to be extremely vulnerable to adversarial attacks, especially…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-06-09 Dongqi Han , Zhiliang Wang , Ying Zhong , Wenqi Chen , Jiahai Yang , Shuqiang Lu , Xingang Shi , Xia Yin

Due to their massive success in various domains, deep learning techniques are increasingly used to design network intrusion detection solutions that detect and mitigate unknown and known attacks with high accuracy detection rates and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Huda Ali Alatwi , Charles Morisset

Adversarial examples can represent a serious threat to machine learning (ML) algorithms. If used to manipulate the behaviour of ML-based Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS), they can jeopardize network security. In this work, we aim…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Nasim Soltani , Shayan Nejadshamsi , Zakaria Abou El Houda , Raphael Khoury , Kelton A. P. Costa , Tiago H. Falk , Anderson R. Avila

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are essential for protecting computer networks from malicious activities, including Denial of Service (DoS), Probing, User-to-Root (U2R), and Remote-to-Local (R2L) attacks. Without effective NIDS,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Ayush Kumar Sharma , Sourav Patel , Supriya Bharat Wakchaure , Abirami S

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) enhanced with Machine Learning (ML) have demonstrated the capacity to efficiently build a prototype of "normal" cyber behaviors in order to detect cyber threats' activity with greater accuracy than…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Vance Wong , John Emanuello

Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS) is an essential tool in securing cyberspace from a variety of security risks and unknown cyberattacks. A number of solutions have been implemented for Machine Learning (ML), and Deep Learning (DL)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Khushnaseeb Roshan , Aasim Zafar , Shiekh Burhan Ul Haque