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SKT-IDS: Unknown attack detection method based on Sigmoid Kernel Transformation and encoder-decoder architecture

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Chao Zha
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Zhiyu Wang
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Yifei Fan
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Xingming Zhang
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Bing Bai
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Yinjie Zhang
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Sainan Shi
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Ruyun Zhang *
DOI:10.1016/j.cose.2024.104056delete
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Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) are crucial in cybersecurity for monitoring network traffic and identifying potential attacks. Existing IDS research largely focuses on known attack detection, leaving a significant gap in research regarding unknown attack detection, where achieving a balance between false alarm rate (identifying normal traffic as attack traffic) and recall rate of unknown attack detection remains challenging. To address these gaps, we propose a novel IDS based on Sigmoid Kernel Transformation and Encoder-Decoder architecture, namely SKT-IDS, where SKT stands for Sigmoid Kernel Transformation. We start with pre-training an attention- based encoder for coarse-grained intrusion detection. Then, we use this encoder to build an encoder-decoder model specifically for 0-day attack detection, training it solely on known traffic using the cosine similarity loss function. To enhance detection, we introduce a Sigmoid Kernel Transformation for feature engineering, improving the discriminative ability between normal traffic and 0-day attacks. Finally, we conducted a series of ablation and comparative experiments on the NSL-KDD and CSE-CIC-IDS2018 datasets, confirming the effectiveness of our proposed method. With a false alarm rate of 1%, we achieved recall rates for unknown attack detection of 65% and 69% on the two datasets, respectively, demonstrating significant performance improvements compared to existing state-of-the-art models.
Keywords:
Intrusion detection
Sigmoid Kernel Transformation
Pre-trained encoder
Encoder-decoder
Cosine similarity

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Computers and Security
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institute of computing technology, cas
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chinese academy of sciences
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