Network intrusion detection using data dimensions reduction techniques

Abstract

Due to the increasing growth of the Internet and its widespread application, the number of attacks on the network has also increased. Therefore, maintaining network security and using intrusion detection systems is of critical importance. The connection between devices leads to a large number of data being generated and saved. The era of “big data” emerges over time. This paper presents a new method for selecting effective features on network intrusion detection based on the concept of fuzzy numbers and scoring methods based on correlation feature selection for intrusion detection systems. The goal of this paper is to present a new approach for reducing data size using the concept of fuzzy numbers and scoring methods based on correlation feature selection for intrusion detection systems. In this method, to eliminate inefficient features and reduce data dimensions, number of features are defined as a fuzzy number, and the heuristic function of the correlation-based feature selection algorithm is expressed as a triangular fuzzy number membership function. To evaluate the proposed method, it is then compared to previous intrusion detection methods. The results show that the proposed method selects several features less than the conventional methods with a higher detection rate. The proposed method is compared with the correlation-based feature selection method on two datasets. The proposed method is evaluated and validated on KDD Cup, NSL-KDD and CICIDS datasets. The achieved accuracy is 99.9% which is 96.01% with CFS method.