Anomaly based Intrusion Detection System using Machine Learning

Attacks on the computer infrastructures are becoming an increasingly serious issue. The problem is ubiquitous and we need a reliable system to prevent it. An anomaly detection-based network intrusion detection system is vital to any security framework within a computer network. The existing Intrusion detection system have a high detection rate but they also have mendacious alert rates. With the use of Machine Learning, we can implement an efficient and reliable model for Intrusion detection and stop some of the hazardous attacks in the network. This paper focuses on detailed study on NSL- KDD dataset after extracting some of the relevant records and then several experiments have been performed and evaluated to assess various machine learning classifiers based on dataset. The implemented experiments demonstrated that the Random forest classifier has achieved the highest average accuracy and has outperformed the other models in various evaluations. Keywords: Intrusion Detection System, Anomaly Detection, Machine Learning, Random Forest, Network Security