Title
A Re-evaluation of Intrusion Detection Accuracy: Alternative Evaluation Strategy
Abstract
This work tries to evaluate the existing approaches used to benchmark the performance of machine learning models applied to network-based intrusion detection systems (NIDS). First, we demonstrate that we can reach a very high accuracy with most of the traditional machine learning and deep learning models by using the existing performance evaluation strategy. It just requires the right hyperparameter tuning to outperform the existing reported accuracy results in deep learning models. We further question the value of the existing evaluation methods in which the same datasets are used for training and testing the models. We are proposing the use of an alternative strategy that aims to evaluate the practicality and the performance of the models and datasets as well. In this approach, different datasets with compatible sets of features are used for training and testing. When we evaluate the models that we created with the proposed strategy, we demonstrate that the performance is very bad. Thus, models have no practical usage, and it performs based on a pure randomness. This research is important for security-based machine learning applications to re-think about the datasets and the model's quality.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3243734.3278490
computer and communications security
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
Intrusion detection system, Network Security, Security and Privacy, Domain Adaptation, Machine Learning, Deep Learning
Conference
978-1-4503-5693-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Said Al-Riyami100.34
Frans Coenen21283131.80
Alexei Lisitsa327245.94