Firefly Algorithm and Deep Neural Network Approach for Intrusion Detection

Abstract

Metaheuristic optimization has grown in popularity as a way for solving complex issues that are difficult to solve using traditional methods. With fast growth of the available storage space and processing capabilities of the modern computers, the machine learning domain, that can be succinctly formulated as the process of enabling the computers to make successful forecasts based on the previous experiences, has recently been under spectacular growth. This paper presents intrusion detection approach by utilizing hybrid method between firefly algorithm and deep neural network. The basic firefly algorithm, as a frequently employed swarm intelligence method, has several known deficiencies, and to overcome them, an enhanced firefly algorithm was proposed and used in this manuscript. For experimental purposes, KDD Cup 99 and NSL-KDD datasets from Kaggle and UCL repositories were taken and comparison with other frameworks that have been validated for the same datasets was executed. Based on simulation data, proposed method was able to establish better values for accuracy, precision, recall, F-score, sensitivity and specificity metrics than other approaches.