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Enhancing Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) with supervised Machine Learning (ML) is tough. ML-NIDS must be trained and evaluated, operations requiring data where benign and malicious samples are clearly labelled. Such labels…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-10 Giovanni Apruzzese , Luca Pajola , Mauro Conti

In the last decades, researchers, practitioners and companies struggled in devising mechanisms to detect malicious activities originating security threats. Amongst the many solutions, network intrusion detection emerged as one of the most…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tommaso Zoppi , Andrea Ceccarelli

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

Machine-learning-based Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) have achieved impressive accuracy in classifying network attacks, yet they consistently fall short on the question that matters most to a security analyst: what should I do next? This…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Md Navid Bin Islam , Sajal Saha , Senior Member

Identifying suitable machine learning paradigms for intrusion detection remains critical for building effective and generalizable security solutions. In this study, we present a controlled comparison of four representative models -…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Zhaoyang Xu , Yunbo Liu

Recently, a special type of data poisoning (DP) attack targeting Deep Neural Network (DNN) classifiers, known as a backdoor, was proposed. These attacks do not seek to degrade classification accuracy, but rather to have the classifier learn…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-20 Zhen Xiang , David J. Miller , George Kesidis

This study focuses on a method for detecting and classifying distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, such as SYN Flooding, ACK Flooding, HTTP Flooding, and UDP Flooding, using neural networks. Machine learning, particularly neural…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Dmytro Tymoshchuk , Oleh Yasniy , Mykola Mytnyk , Nataliya Zagorodna , Vitaliy Tymoshchuk

Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) play an important role as tools for identifying potential network threats. In the context of ever-increasing traffic volume on computer networks, flow-based NIDS arise as good solutions for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Camila Pontes , Manuela Souza , João Gondim , Matt Bishop , Marcelo Marotta

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

With the advent of Software Defined Networks (SDNs), there has been a rapid advancement in the area of cloud computing. It is now scalable, cheaper, and easier to manage. However, SDNs are more prone to security vulnerabilities as compared…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-10-03 Mahmoud Said Elsayed , Nhien-An Le-Khac , Soumyabrata Dev , Anca Delia Jurcut

Network security engineers work to keep services available all the time by handling intruder attacks. Intrusion Detection System (IDS) is one of the obtainable mechanisms that is used to sense and classify any abnormal actions. Therefore,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-09-10 Mouhammad Alkasassbeh , Mohammad Almseidin

Several Machine Learning (ML) methodologies have been proposed to improve security in Internet Of Things (IoT) networks and reduce the damage caused by the action of malicious agents. However, detecting and classifying attacks with high…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Diego Abreu , Antônio Abelém

The detection of previously unseen network attacks remains a major challenge for intrusion detection systems. Although supervised learning methods often perform well on known attack classes, they are limited when new attack types are not…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Saif Alzubi , Frederic Stahl

Intrusion detection systems (IDSs) play an important role in identifying malicious attacks and threats in networking systems. As fundamental tools of IDSs, learning based classification methods have been widely employed. When it comes to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2019-01-29 He Zhang , Xingrui Yu , Peng Ren , Chunbo Luo , Geyong Min

As cyberattacks become increasingly sophisticated, advanced Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are critical for modern network security. Traditional signature-based NIDS are inadequate against zero-day and evolving attacks. In…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Benyamin Tafreshian , Shengzhi Zhang

Machine learning (ML) has become increasingly popular in network intrusion detection. However, ML-based solutions always respond regardless of whether the input data reflects known patterns, a common issue across safety-critical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Andrea Corsini , Shanchieh Jay Yang

The performance of machine learning based network intrusion detection systems (NIDSs) severely degrades when deployed on a network with significantly different feature distributions from the ones of the training dataset. In various…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-05-15 Siamak Layeghy , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Marius Portmann

A robust theoretical framework that can describe and predict the generalization ability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in general circumstances remains elusive. Classical attempts have produced complexity metrics that rely heavily on global…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Marelie H. Davel , Marthinus W. Theunissen , Arnold M. Pretorius , Etienne Barnard

Network intrusion detection is the process of identifying malicious behaviors that target a network and its resources. Current systems implementing intrusion detection processes observe traffic at several data collecting points in the…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Michel Toulouse , Bui Quang Minh , Philip Curtis

Intrusion detection into computer networks has become one of the most important issues in cybersecurity. Attackers keep on researching and coding to discover new vulnerabilities to penetrate information security system. In consequence…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Sergio Hidalgo-Espinoza , Kevin Chamorro-Cupueran , Oscar Chang-Tortolero