Factor-analysis based anomaly detection and clustering

  • Authors:
  • Ningning Wu;Jing Zhang

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Information Science, Little Rock;Universtty of Arkansas at Little Rock, Applied Science, Little Rock

  • Venue:
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

This paper presents a novel anomaly detection and clustering algorithm for the network intrusion detection based on factor analysis and Mahalanobis distance. Factor analysis is used to uncover the latent structure of a set of variables. The Mahalanobis distance is used to determine the "similarity" of a set of values from an "unknown" sample to a set of values measured from a collection of "known" samples. By utilizing factor analysis and Mahalanobis distance, we developed an algorithm 1) to identify outliers based on a trained model, and 2) to cluster attacks by abnormal features.