Performance analysis of different machine learning algorithms for intrusion detection on KDD-CUP-99 dataset.

Network security has emerged as an essential issue as an outcome of the Internet's broad consumption. The efficiency of anomaly-based detection systems for network intrusions (IDS) as a tool for spotting illicit traffic has risen. IDS's precision and efficiency have been enhanced with the assistance of ML methods. The performance of multiple machine learning (ML) algorithms in anomaly-based intrusion detection is compared in this paper using KDD-CUP-99 dataset. The algorithms considered include Voting, LightGBM, Decision Tree, KNN, Random Forest, AdaBoost, Naive Bayes Model, CatBoost, and Logistic Regression. The study's findings indicate that the Decision Tree, Random Forest, LightGBM, and Voting algorithms did remarkably well and exhibited high rates of accuracy, while Naive Bayes performed inadequately. This study comes to the conclusion that using ML algorithms might greatly improve the precision of knowledge-based network intrusion detection and provide a workable network security solution. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]