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A Survey of Network Features for Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Network Attacks

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The immeasurable amount of data in network traffic has increased its vulnerability. Therefore, monitoring and analyzing traffic for threat hunting is inevitable. Analyzing and capturing real-time network traffic is challenging due to privacy and space concerns. However, many simulated datasets are available. Machine-learning based intrusion detection systems are trained on these datasets for attack detection. Selection of correct features has significant importance in determining the efficiency of various Ml-based algorithms. Hence, this paper provides a literature survey of the various machine learning based IDS. Features, attacks, machine learning algorithms and their corresponding datasets are identified in the survey. The survey may help researchers in identifying benchmark features correlated to network attacks. At the time of writing this paper there is no such IDS that associates network features to attacks.

Keywords

  • IDS-Intrusion Detection System
  • DoS- Denial of Service
  • Cyber space
  • NetFlow

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Rubab, J., Afzal, H., Shahid, W.B. (2022). A Survey of Network Features for Machine Learning Algorithms to Detect Network Attacks. In: Nguyen, N.T., Tran, T.K., Tukayev, U., Hong, TP., Trawiński, B., Szczerbicki, E. (eds) Intelligent Information and Database Systems. ACIIDS 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13758. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-21967-2_7

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