Performance Evaluation of ML Techniques for Trust-Based Employee Behavioural Classification for Access Control in Organizations

Abstract

In today's digital environment, it's reassuring to know that analysis and modelling have gone into improving security in information systems via better trust management of personnel. Security mechanisms like trust are used to deal with varying degrees of authorization within an organization. Building and testing different machine learning models of trust based on the behaviour of an organization's employee data set is the first stage in our trust study. In this work, we show trust modelling on security systems using various machine learning (ML) techniques such as Random Forest (RF), Decision Tree (RF), XG Boost (XGB) and Logistic Regression (LR). We perform the training and the testing of our ML models based on stochastic pattern recognition to classify the Trust of an employee into four classes namely, Trusted, Moderate, U ntrusted and Unexpected. Later a rigorous comparison of all these models is done based on a Model Error Rate (MER) of a recommended trust board.