A Network Intrusion Detection System Using Hybrid Multilayer Deep Learning Model

Abstract

An intrusion detection system (IDS) is designed to detect and analyze network traffic for suspicious activity. Several methods have been introduced in the literature for IDSs; however, due to a large amount of data, these models have failed to achieve high accuracy. A statistical approach is proposed in this research due to the unsatisfactory results of traditional intrusion detection methods. The features are extracted and selected using a multilayer convolutional neural network, and a softmax classifier is employed to classify the network intrusions. To perform further analysis, a multilayer deep neural network is also applied to classify network intrusions. Furthermore, the experiments are performed using two commonly used benchmark intrusion detection datasets: NSL-KDD and KDDCUP'99. The performance of the proposed model is evaluated using four performance metrics: accuracy, recall, F1-score, and precision. The experimental results show that the proposed approach achieved better accuracy (99%) compared with other IDSs.