Modeling intrusion detection systems using linear genetic programming approach

  • Authors:
  • Srinivas Mukkamala;Andrew H. Sung;Ajith Abraham

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM;Department of Computer Science, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM;Department of Computer Science, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, OK

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE'2004 Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Innovations in applied artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper investigates the suitability of linear genetic programming (LGP) technique to model efficient intrusion detection systems, while comparing its performance with artificial neural networks and support vector machines. Due to increasing incidents of cyber attacks and, building effective intrusion detection systems (IDSs) are essential for protecting information systems security, and yet it remains an elusive goal and a great challenge. We also investigate key feature indentification for building efficient and effective IDSs. Through a variety of comparative experiments, it is found that, with appropriately chosen population size, program size, crossover rate and mutation rate, linear genetic programs could outperform support vector machines and neural networks in terms of detection accuracy. Using key features gives notable performance in terms of detection accuracies. However the difference in accuracy tends to be small in a few cases.