Comparative Analysis of Intrusion Detection System Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Algorithms

Attacks against computer networks, “cyber-attacks”, are now common place affecting almost every Internet connected device on a daily basis. Organisations are now using machine learning and deep learning to thwart these types of attacks for their effectiveness without the need for human intervention. Machine learning offers the biggest advantage in their ability to detect, curtail, prevent, recover and even deal with untrained types of attacks without being explicitly programmed. This research will show the many different types of algorithms that are employed to fight against the different types of cyber-attacks, which are also explained. The classification algorithms, their implementation, accuracy and testing time are presented. The algorithms employed for this experiment were the Gaussian Naïve-Bayes algorithm, Logistic Regression Algorithm, SVM (Support Vector Machine) Algorithm, Stochastic Gradient Descent Algorithm, Decision Tree Algorithm, Random Forest Algorithm, Gradient Boosting Algorithm, K-Nearest Neighbour Algorithm, ANN (Artificial Neural Network) (here we also employed the Multilevel Perceptron Algorithm), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Algorithm and the Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) Algorithm. The study concluded that amongst the various machine learning algorithms, the Logistic Regression and Decision tree classifiers all took a very short time to be implemented giving an accuracy of over 90% for malware detection inside various test datasets. The Gaussian Naïve-Bayes classifier, though fast to implement, only gave an accuracy between 51-88%. The Multilevel Perceptron, non-linear SVM and Gradient Boosting algorithms all took a very long time to be implemented. The algorithm that performed with the greatest accuracy was the Random Forest Classification algorithm.