The Proposition and Evaluation of the RoEduNet-SIMARGL2021 Network Intrusion Detection Dataset

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DOI: 10.3390/s21134319
Publication type: Article
Journal: Sensors
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Publication date: 2021-06-24

Abstract

Cybersecurity is an arms race, with both the security and the adversaries attempting to outsmart one another, coming up with new attacks, new ways to defend against those attacks, and again with new ways to circumvent those defences. This situation creates a constant need for novel, realistic cybersecurity datasets. This paper introduces the effects of using machine-learning- based intrusion detection methods in network traffic coming from a real-life architecture. The main contribution of this work is a dataset coming from a real-world, academic network. Real-life traffic was collected and, after performing a series of attacks, a dataset was assembled. The dataset contains 44 network features and an unbalanced distribution of classes. In this work, the capability of the dataset for formulating machine-learning-based models was experimentally evaluated. To investigate the stability of the obtained models, cross-validation was performed, and an array of detection metrics were reported. The gathered dataset is part of an effort to bring security against novel cyberthreats and was completed in the SIMARGL project.

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  • Maria-Elena Mihailescu
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    University Politehnica of Bucharest
    Bucharest, Romania
  • Darius Mihai
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    University Politehnica of Bucharest
    Bucharest, Romania
  • Mihai Carabas
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    RoEduNet
    Bucharest, Romania
  • Mikołaj Komisarek
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    ITTI Sp. z o.o. | UTP University of Science and Technology
    Poznań, Poland | Bydgoszcz, Poland
  • Marek Pawlicki
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    ITTI Sp. z o.o.
    Poznań, Poland
  • Witold Hołubowicz
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    UTP University of Science and Technology<
    Bydgoszcz, Poland
  • Rafał Kozik
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    ITTI Sp. z o.o.
    Poznań, Poland