Efficient Intrusion Detection Through the Fusion of AI Algorithms and Feature Selection Methods

Abstract

With the proliferation of both Internet access and data traffic, recent breaches have brought into sharp focus the need for Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) to protect networks from more complex cyberattacks. To differentiate between normal network processes and possible attacks, Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) often employ pattern recognition and data mining techniques. Network and host system intrusions, assaults, and policy violations can be automatically detected and classified by an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Using Python Scikit-Learn the results of this study show that Machine Learning (ML) techniques like Decision Tree (DT), Naïve Bayes (NB), and K-Nearest Neighbor (KNN) can enhance the effectiveness of an Intrusion Detection System (IDS). Success is measured by a variety of metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1-Score, and execution time. Applying feature selection approaches such as Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Mutual Information (MI), and Chi-Square (Ch-2) reduced execution time, increased detection efficiency and accuracy, and boosted overall performance. All classifiers achieve the greatest performance with 99.99% accuracy and the shortest computation time of 0.0089 seconds while using ANOVA with 10% of features.