Analysis of Zero Day Attack Detection Using MLP and XAI
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| author | Dahal, Ashim Bajgai, Prabin Rahimi, Nick |
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| contents | Any exploit taking advantage of zero-day is called a zero-day attack. Previous research and social media trends show a massive demand for research in zero-day attack detection. This paper analyzes Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) based approaches to create Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and scrutinizing them using Explainable AI (XAI) by training an explainer based on randomly sampled data from the testing set. The focus is on using the KDD99 dataset, which has the most research done among all the datasets for detecting zero-day attacks. The paper aims to synthesize the dataset to have fewer classes for multi-class classification, test ML and DL approaches on pattern recognition, establish the robustness and dependability of the model, and establish the interpretability and scalability of the model. We evaluated the performance of four multilayer perceptron (MLP) trained on the KDD99 dataset, including baseline ML models, weighted ML models, truncated ML models, and weighted truncated ML models. Our results demonstrate that the truncated ML model achieves the highest accuracy (99.62%), precision, and recall, while weighted truncated ML model shows lower accuracy (97.26%) but better class representation (less bias) among all the classes with improved unweighted recall score. We also used Shapely Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to train explainer for our truncated models to check for feature importance among the two weighted and unweighted models. |
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| spellingShingle | Analysis of Zero Day Attack Detection Using MLP and XAI Dahal, Ashim Bajgai, Prabin Rahimi, Nick Machine Learning Cryptography and Security Any exploit taking advantage of zero-day is called a zero-day attack. Previous research and social media trends show a massive demand for research in zero-day attack detection. This paper analyzes Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning (DL) based approaches to create Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and scrutinizing them using Explainable AI (XAI) by training an explainer based on randomly sampled data from the testing set. The focus is on using the KDD99 dataset, which has the most research done among all the datasets for detecting zero-day attacks. The paper aims to synthesize the dataset to have fewer classes for multi-class classification, test ML and DL approaches on pattern recognition, establish the robustness and dependability of the model, and establish the interpretability and scalability of the model. We evaluated the performance of four multilayer perceptron (MLP) trained on the KDD99 dataset, including baseline ML models, weighted ML models, truncated ML models, and weighted truncated ML models. Our results demonstrate that the truncated ML model achieves the highest accuracy (99.62%), precision, and recall, while weighted truncated ML model shows lower accuracy (97.26%) but better class representation (less bias) among all the classes with improved unweighted recall score. We also used Shapely Additive exPlanations (SHAP) to train explainer for our truncated models to check for feature importance among the two weighted and unweighted models. |
| title | Analysis of Zero Day Attack Detection Using MLP and XAI |
| topic | Machine Learning Cryptography and Security |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16638 |