Machine learning techniques for intrusion detection on public dataset

Abstract

The development of computer based systems expands the usage of computer based application in human life. It can be observed that illegal activities such as unauthorized data access, data theft, data modification and various other intrusion activities are rapidly growing during last decade. Hence, deployment and continuous improvement of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are of paramount importance. Training, testing and evaluation of IDS with real network traffic is significant challenge, so most of IDS evaluation is based on intrusion datasets. Therefore, analysis of intrusion datasets are of paramount importance. In this paper, we evaluated Aegean Wi-Fi Intrusion Dataset (AWID) with different machine learning techniques. Feature reduction techniques such as Information Gain (IG) and Chi-Squared statistics (CH) were applied to evaluate dataset performance with feature reduction. Results of experiments show that feature reduction can lead to better analysis in terms of accuracy, processing time and complexity. It was observed that, the maximum increment of classification accuracy with feature reduction from 110 to 41 is 2.4%.