Semi-Supervised Machine Learning Approaches for DDOS Attack Detection

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Network infrastructures are the target of several attacks. These include intrusions into the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the network. The network's availability is impacted by a persistent attack known as a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. Such an assault is carried out using a command and control (C & C) technique. To detect these assaults, numerous researchers have put forth various machine learning-based solutions. In this paper, we are going to detect different DDoS attacks by various methods and evaluate their performance. This experiment made use of the KD99 dataset. The normal and assault samples were classified using the random forest technique. The classification of 99.76% of the samples was accurate. By strategically selecting clusters and incorporating the insights gained from the small labelled dataset, a portion of the unlabelled clusters can be assigned labels, effectively converting raw data into useful training examples. This enriched dataset is then used to train an improved classifier that can better generalize and adapt to the dynamic nature of DDoS attacks.