A hybrid neural network approach to the classification of novel attacks for intrusion detection

  • Authors:
  • Wei Pan;Weihua Li

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi, Xi’an, China;School of Computer Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Shaanxi, Xi’an, China

  • Venue:
  • ISPA'05 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

Intrusion Detection is an essential and critical component of network security systems. The key ideas are to discover useful patterns or features that describe user behavior on a system, and use the set of relevant features to build classifiers that can recognize anomalies and known intrusions, hopefully in real time. In this paper, a hybrid neural network technique is proposed, which consists of the self-organizing map (SOM) and the radial basis function (RBF) network, aiming at optimizing the performance of the recognition and classification of novel attacks for intrusion detection. The optimal network architecture of the RBF network is determined automatically by the improved SOM algorithm. The intrusion feature vectors are extracted from a benchmark dataset (the KDD-99) designed by DARPA. The experimental results demonstrate that the proposed approach performance especially in terms of both efficient and accuracy.