Evaluation DDoS Attack Detection Through the Application of Machine Learning Techniques on the CICIDS2017 Dataset in the Field of Information Security
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
Amongst network and Intrusion Detection System (IDS) threats, Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks often take precedence due to their significant potential to disrupt services, leading to financial and reputational damages for organizations.This study employs eight advanced machine learning techniques to distinguish between two types of DDoS attacks: DoS Hulk and DoS Slow HTTP Test.The applied algorithms include Decision Tree (DT), Random Forest (RF), Gradient Boosting (GB), AdaBoost, Naive Bayes (NB), Extreme Gradient Boosting (XGB), Ridge regression, and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP).Utilizing a Python environment, these methods were applied to the DDoS attacks in the CICIDS2017 dataset for classification into benign or DoS categories across two distinct experiments.The results were highly encouraging: The first experiment achieved an accuracy rate exceeding 99%, while the second experiment achieved a perfect success rate of 100%.These findings outperform those of previous studies in terms of their efficiency, demonstrating the potential of these machine learning techniques in enhancing DDoS attack detection.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it