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1997

Intrusion Detection with Neural Networks

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Intrusion Detection with Neural Networks
With the rapid expansion of computer networks during the past few years, security has become a crucial issue for modern computer systems. A good way to detect illegitimate use is through monitoring unusual user activity. Methods of intrusion detection based on hand-coded rule sets or predicting commands on-line are laborous to build or not very reliable. This paper proposes a new way of applying neural networks to detect intrusions. We believe that a user leaves a ‘print’ when using the system; a neural network can be used to learn this print and identify each user much like detectives use thumbprints to place people at crime scenes. If a user’s behavior does not match his/her print, the system administrator can be alerted of a possible security breech. A backpropagation neural network called NNID (Neural Network Intrusion Detector) was trained in the identification task and tested experimentally on a system of 10 users. The system was 96% accurate in detecting unusual activity...
Jake Ryan, Meng-Jang Lin, Risto Miikkulainen
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Type Conference
Year 1997
Where NIPS
Authors Jake Ryan, Meng-Jang Lin, Risto Miikkulainen
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