Abstract
Unsupervised anomaly detection is an important area of research to find abnormal behavior and integral part of many systems. In this research, a lightweight deep autoencoder based approach is presented to detect anomalies in unsupervised manner. It has the ability to learn the model over the normal patterns and any deviation is considered as an anomaly. Consequently, it can relax the condition to have anomalous data patterns during the training phase of the model. In this work, we examine lightweight autoencoder for anomaly detection task in order to show that simple architecture can show good performance in terms of training, testing time, number of parameters and metrics. We apply autoencoder for binary classification problem (i.e., each data point considered either normal or abnormal). The reconstruction error is used to detect anomalies. The experiments are carried out over the particular class of cyber security domain known as intrusion detection systems. We evaluated our model on standard publicly available benchmarks of KDD-99, NSL-KDD and UNSW-NB15 and achieved F1-score of 0.96, 0.88 and 0.95, respectively. It outperforms by a considerable margin when compared to state-of-the-art methods.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2019 |
Publisher | IEEE Computer Society |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781728150529 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Nov 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2019 - Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Duration: 03 Nov 2019 → 07 Nov 2019 |
Publication series
Name | Proceedings of IEEE/ACS International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA |
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Volume | 2019-November |
ISSN (Print) | 2161-5322 |
ISSN (Electronic) | 2161-5330 |
Conference
Conference | 16th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications, AICCSA 2019 |
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Country/Territory | United Arab Emirates |
City | Abu Dhabi |
Period | 03/11/2019 → 07/11/2019 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2019 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Intrusion Detection System
- KDD-99
- Novelty Detection
- NSL-KDD
- Outlier detection
- UNSW-NB15
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Computer Networks and Communications
- Computer Science Applications
- Hardware and Architecture
- Signal Processing
- Control and Systems Engineering
- Electrical and Electronic Engineering