A Reliable Network Intrusion Detection Approach Using Decision Tree with Enhanced Data Quality

Abstract

Due to the recent advancements in the Internet of things (IoT) and cloud computing technologies and growing number of devices connected to the Internet, the security and privacy issues are important to be resolved and protect the data and computer network. To provide security, a real-time monitoring of the network data and resources is needed. Intrusion detection systems have been used to monitor, detect, and alert an intrusion event in real time. Recently, the intrusion detection systems (IDS) incorporate several machine learning (ML) techniques. One of the techniques is decision tree, which can take reliable network measures and make good decisions by increasing the detection rate and accuracy. In this paper, we propose a reliable network intrusion detection approach using decision tree with enhanced data quality. Specifically, network data preprocessing and entropy decision feature selection is carried out for enhancing the data quality and relevant training; then, a decision tree classifier is built for reliable intrusion detection. Experimental study on two datasets shows that the proposed model can reach robust results. Actually, our model achieves 99.42% and 98.80% accuracy with NSL-KDD and CICIDS2017 datasets, respectively. The novel approach gives many advantages compared to the other models in term of accuracy (ACC), detection rate (DR), and false alarm rate (FAR).