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Intrusion detection is a critical component of cybersecurity, responsible for identifying unauthorized access or anomalous behavior in computer networks. This paper presents a comprehensive study on intrusion detection in networks using…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Luis Miguel Osco Vasquez

The recent success and proliferation of machine learning and deep learning have provided powerful tools, which are also utilized for encrypted traffic analysis, classification, and threat detection in computer networks. These methods,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Jan Luxemburk , Tomáš Čejka

Desktops and laptops can be maliciously exploited to violate privacy. In this paper, we consider the daily battle between the passive attacker who is targeting a specific user against a user that may be adversarial opponent. In this…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Amit Dvir , Yehonatan Zion , Jonathan Muehlstein , Ofir Pele , Chen Hajaj , Ran Dubin

The effectiveness of network intrusion detection systems, predominantly based on machine learning, are highly influenced by the dataset they are trained on. Ensuring an accurate reflection of the multifaceted nature of benign and malicious…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Dania Herzalla , Willian T. Lunardi , Martin Andreoni Lopez

As people's demand for personal privacy and data security becomes a priority, encrypted traffic has become mainstream in the cyber world. However, traffic encryption is also shielding malicious and illegal traffic introduced by adversaries,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Zihao Wang , Kar-Wai Fok , Vrizlynn L. L. Thing

Despite the widespread use of encryption techniques to provide confidentiality over Internet communications, mobile device users are still susceptible to privacy and security risks. In this paper, a new Deep Neural Network (DNN) based user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Madushi H. Pathmaperuma , Yogachandran Rahulamathavan , Safak Dogan , Ahmet M. Kondoz , Rongxing Lu

Accurate network traffic forecasting is essential for Internet Service Providers (ISP) to optimize resources, enhance user experience, and mitigate anomalies. This study evaluates state-of-the-art deep learning models on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Josef Koumar , Timotej Smoleň , Kamil Jeřábek , Tomáš Čejka

Network security threats in embedded systems pose significant challenges to critical infrastructure protection. This paper presents a comprehensive framework combining ensemble learning methods with explainable artificial intelligence (XAI)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Wanru Shao

The goal of this note is to assess whether simple machine learning algorithms can be used to determine whether and how a given network has been attacked. The procedure is based on the $k$-Nearest Neighbor and the Random Forest…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-08-30 Davide Coppes , Paolo Cermelli

Intrusion detection has attracted a considerable interest from researchers and industries. After many years of research the community still faces the problem of building reliable and efficient intrusion detection systems (IDS) capable of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-10-08 Elike Hodo , Xavier Bellekens , Ephraim Iorkyase , Andrew Hamilton , Christos Tachtatzis , Robert Atkinson

As modern networks grow increasingly complex--driven by diverse devices, encrypted protocols, and evolving threats--network traffic analysis has become critically important. Existing machine learning models often rely only on a single…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Binghui Wu , Dinil Mon Divakaran , Mohan Gurusamy

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 (NIDSs) play an important role in computer network security. There are several detection mechanisms where anomaly-based automated detection outperforms others significantly. Amid the sophistication and…

Deciding that two network flows are essentially the same is an important problem in intrusion detection and in tracing anonymous connections. A stepping stone or an anonymity network may try to prevent flow correlation by adding chaff…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-10-18 Juan A. Elices , Fernando Perez-Gonzalez

APT, known as Advanced Persistent Threat, is a difficult challenge for cyber defence. These threats make many traditional defences ineffective as the vulnerabilities exploited by these threats are insiders who have access to and are within…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-09-01 Mohammad Mamun , Kevin Shi

Cybersecurity, security monitoring of malicious events in IP traffic, is an important field largely unexplored by statisticians. Computer scientists have made significant contributions in this area using statistical anomaly detection and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Ganesh Subramaniam , Huan Chen , Ravi Varadhan , Robert Archibald

Monitoring network traffic to identify content, services, and applications is an active research topic in network traffic control systems. While modern firewalls provide the capability to decrypt packets, this is not appealing for privacy…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Niloofar Bayat , Weston Jackson , Derrick Liu

With massive data being generated daily and the ever-increasing interconnectivity of the world's Internet infrastructures, a machine learning based intrusion detection system (IDS) has become a vital component to protect our economic and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-08-20 Zachary Tauscher , Yushan Jiang , Kai Zhang , Jian Wang , Houbing Song

Network telescopes serve as a critical passive monitoring tool for capturing unsolicited Internet traffic, providing insights into global scanning and reconnaissance behavior. This study analyzes a 10-day dataset during January 2025…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Shereen Ismail , Taelyn Dyer , Raul Martinez , Garrett Gastman , Yozelyn Chavez , Asma Jodeiri Akbarfam

The accelerated development of social media websites has posed intricate security issues in cyberspace, where these sites have increasingly become victims of criminal activities including attempts to intrude into them, abnormal traffic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Aditi Sanjay Agrawal