Evaluating Effectiveness: A Critical Review of Performance Metrics in Intrusion Detection System
Vandana Vandana, Rakesh Verma · Journal of Engineering Science and Technology Review · 2025
This critical review analyzes the effectiveness of performance metrics for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) and applies the PRISMA methodology to conduct a systematic review.The investigation focuses on core metrics like accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, and F1 score, where each exerts varied information about IDS performance.On the PRISMA framework, we systematically conducted searching, screening, and analysing academic articles on performance-related IDS topics.The articles are searched for in reputed academic article indexing databases such as Scopus, IEEE Explore, Web of Science, and the ACM digital library.Based on the objective evaluation model for symptoms, the major findings of the study are that while accuracy is clear and relatively easy to conceptualise and compute, it often gives no real insight.Our findings give a comprehensive framework for further research and practical measures to be implemented so that increased effectiveness is ensured in threat detection strategies.