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A Detailed Analysis of Benchmark Datasets for Network Intrusion Detection System

Mossa Ghurab, Ghaleb Gaphari, Faisal Alshami, Reem Alshamy, Suad Othman

Asian Journal of Research in Computer Science · pp. 14–33 · Published 14 Apr 2021

10.9734/ajrcos/2021/v7i430185

Abstract

The enormous increase in the use of the Internet in daily life has provided an opportunity for the intruder attempt to compromise the security principles of availability, confidentiality, and integrity. As a result, organizations are working to increase the level of security by using attack detection techniques such as Network Intrusion Detection System (NIDS), which monitors and analyzes network flow and attacks detection. There are a lot of researches proposed to develop the NIDS and depend on the dataset for the evaluation. Datasets allow evaluating the ability in detecting intrusion behavior. This paper introduces a detailed analysis of benchmark and recent datasets for NIDS. Specifically, we describe eight well-known datasets that include: KDD99, NSL-KDD, KYOTO 2006+, ISCX2012, UNSW-NB 15, CIDDS-001, CICIDS2017, and CSE-CIC-IDS2018. For each dataset, we provide a detailed analysis of its instances, features, classes, and the nature of the features. The main objective of this paper is to offer overviews of the datasets are available for the NIDS and what each dataset is comprised of. Furthermore, some recommendations were made to use network-based datasets.

KDD99 NSL-KDD KYOTO 2006 ISCX2012 UNSW-NB 15 CIDDS-001 CICIDS2017 CSE-CIC-IDS2018

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