Session-based network intrusion detection using a deep learning architecture

Abstract

Intrusion detection is extremely crucial to prevent computer systems from being compromised. However, as numerous complicated attack types have growingly appeared and evolved in recent years, obtaining quite high detection rates is increasingly difficult. Also, traditional heavily hand-crafted evaluation datasets for network intrusion detection have not been practical. In addition, deep learning techniques have shown extraordinary capabilities in various application fields. The primary goal of this research is utilizing unsupervised deep learning techniques to automatically learn essential features from raw network traffics and achieve quite high detection accuracy. In this paper, we propose a session-based network intrusion detection model using a deep learning architecture. Comparative experiments demonstrate that the proposed model can achieve incredibly high performance to detect botnet network traffics.