A Novel Covariance Matrix Based Approach for Detecting Network Anomalies

Mahbod Tavallaee, Wei Dar Lu, Shah Arif Iqbal, Ali Akbar Ghorbani · 2008

During the last decade, anomaly detection has attracted the attention of many researchers to overcome the weakness of signature-based IDSs in detecting novel attacks. However, having a relatively high false alarm rate, anomaly detection has not been wildly used in real networks. In this paper, we have proposed a novel anomaly detection scheme using the correlation information contained in groups of network traffic samples. Our experimental results show promising detection rates while maintaining false positives at very low rates.

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