A new ensemble based approach for intrusion detection system using voting

Abstract

With the increase in the amount of data available today, the responsibility of keeping that data safe has also taken a more severe form. To prevent confidential data from getting in the hands of an attacker, some measures need to be taken. Here comes the need for an effective system, which can classify the traffic as an attack or normal. Intrusion Detection Systems can do this work with perfection. Many machine learning algorithms are used to develop efficient IDS. These IDS provide remarkable results. However, ensemble-based IDS using voting have been seen to outperform individual approaches (Support Vector Machine and ExtraTree). Since the Voting methodology is able to work around both, theoretically similar and different classifiers and produce a single classifier based on the majority characteristics, it proved to be better than the other ensemble based techniques. In this paper, an ensemble IDS implementation is presented based on the voting ensemble method, using the two algorithms, Support Vector Machine (SVC) and ExtraTree. The experiment is performed on the KDDCup99 Dataset. The evaluation of the performance of the proposed method is based on the comparison with an unoptimized implementation of the same. The results based on performing the experiment in Python fetched an accuracy of 99.90%.