Neural network and artificial immune systems for malware and network intrusion detection

Abstract

Neural network techniques and artificial immune systems (AIS) have been successfully applied to many problems in the area of anomaly activity detection and recognition. The existing solutions use mostly static approaches, which are based on collection viruses or intrusion signatures. Therefore the major problem of traditional techniques is detection and recognition of new viruses or attacks. This chapter discusses the use of neural networks and artificial immune systems for intrusion and virus detection. We studied the performance of different intelligent techniques, namely integration of neural networks and AIS for virus and intrusion detection as well as combination of various kinds of neural networks in modular neural system for intrusion detection. This approach has good potential to recognize novel viruses and attacks. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.