scholarly journals Performance Comparison and Current Challenges of Using Machine Learning Techniques in Cybersecurity

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamran Shaukat ◽  
Suhuai Luo ◽  
Vijay Varadharajan ◽  
Ibrahim A. Hameed ◽  
Shan Chen ◽  
...  

Cyberspace has become an indispensable factor for all areas of the modern world. The world is becoming more and more dependent on the internet for everyday living. The increasing dependency on the internet has also widened the risks of malicious threats. On account of growing cybersecurity risks, cybersecurity has become the most pivotal element in the cyber world to battle against all cyber threats, attacks, and frauds. The expanding cyberspace is highly exposed to the intensifying possibility of being attacked by interminable cyber threats. The objective of this survey is to bestow a brief review of different machine learning (ML) techniques to get to the bottom of all the developments made in detection methods for potential cybersecurity risks. These cybersecurity risk detection methods mainly comprise of fraud detection, intrusion detection, spam detection, and malware detection. In this review paper, we build upon the existing literature of applications of ML models in cybersecurity and provide a comprehensive review of ML techniques in cybersecurity. To the best of our knowledge, we have made the first attempt to give a comparison of the time complexity of commonly used ML models in cybersecurity. We have comprehensively compared each classifier’s performance based on frequently used datasets and sub-domains of cyber threats. This work also provides a brief introduction of machine learning models besides commonly used security datasets. Despite having all the primary precedence, cybersecurity has its constraints compromises, and challenges. This work also expounds on the enormous current challenges and limitations faced during the application of machine learning techniques in cybersecurity.

Author(s):  
S. Abijah Roseline ◽  
S. Geetha

Malware is the most serious security threat, which possibly targets billions of devices like personal computers, smartphones, etc. across the world. Malware classification and detection is a challenging task due to the targeted, zero-day, and stealthy nature of advanced and new malwares. The traditional signature detection methods like antivirus software were effective for detecting known malwares. At present, there are various solutions for detection of such unknown malwares employing feature-based machine learning algorithms. Machine learning techniques detect known malwares effectively but are not optimal and show a low accuracy rate for unknown malwares. This chapter explores a novel deep learning model called deep dilated residual network model for malware image classification. The proposed model showed a higher accuracy of 98.50% and 99.14% on Kaggle Malimg and BIG 2015 datasets, respectively. The new malwares can be handled in real-time with minimal human interaction using the proposed deep residual model.


2022 ◽  
pp. 123-145
Author(s):  
Pelin Yildirim Taser ◽  
Vahid Khalilpour Akram

The GPS signals are not available inside the buildings; hence, indoor localization systems rely on indoor technologies such as Bluetooth, WiFi, and RFID. These signals are used for estimating the distance between a target and available reference points. By combining the estimated distances, the location of the target nodes is determined. The wide spreading of the internet and the exponential increase in small hardware diversity allow the creation of the internet of things (IoT)-based indoor localization systems. This chapter reviews the traditional and machine learning-based methods for IoT-based positioning systems. The traditional methods include various distance estimation and localization approaches; however, these approaches have some limitations. Because of the high prediction performance, machine learning algorithms are used for indoor localization problems in recent years. The chapter focuses on presenting an overview of the application of machine learning algorithms in indoor localization problems where the traditional methods remain incapable.


Author(s):  
Karthikeyan P. ◽  
Karunakaran Velswamy ◽  
Pon Harshavardhanan ◽  
Rajagopal R. ◽  
JeyaKrishnan V. ◽  
...  

Machine learning is the part of artificial intelligence that makes machines learn without being expressly programmed. Machine learning application built the modern world. Machine learning techniques are mainly classified into three techniques: supervised, unsupervised, and semi-supervised. Machine learning is an interdisciplinary field, which can be joined in different areas including science, business, and research. Supervised techniques are applied in agriculture, email spam, malware filtering, online fraud detection, optical character recognition, natural language processing, and face detection. Unsupervised techniques are applied in market segmentation and sentiment analysis and anomaly detection. Deep learning is being utilized in sound, image, video, time series, and text. This chapter covers applications of various machine learning techniques, social media, agriculture, and task scheduling in a distributed system.


2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jong Hwan Suh

In the digital age, the abundant unstructured data on the Internet, particularly online news articles, provide opportunities for identifying social problems and understanding social systems for sustainability. However, the previous works have not paid attention to the social-problem-specific perspectives of such big data, and it is currently unclear how information technologies can use the big data to identify and manage the ongoing social problems. In this context, this paper introduces and focuses on social-problem-specific key noun terms, namely SocialTERMs, which can be used not only to search the Internet for social-problem-related data, but also to monitor the ongoing and future events of social problems. Moreover, to alleviate time-consuming human efforts in identifying the SocialTERMs, this paper designs and examines the SocialTERM-Extractor, which is an automatic approach for identifying the key noun terms of social-problem-related topics, namely SPRTs, in a large number of online news articles and predicting the SocialTERMs among the identified key noun terms. This paper has its novelty as the first trial to identify and predict the SocialTERMs from a large number of online news articles, and it contributes to literature by proposing three types of text-mining-based features, namely temporal weight, sentiment, and complex network structural features, and by comparing the performances of such features with various machine learning techniques including deep learning. Particularly, when applied to a large number of online news articles that had been published in South Korea over a 12-month period and mostly written in Korean, the experimental results showed that Boosting Decision Tree gave the best performances with the full feature sets. They showed that the SocialTERMs can be predicted with high performances by the proposed SocialTERM-Extractor. Eventually, this paper can be beneficial for individuals or organizations who want to explore and use social-problem-related data in a systematical manner for understanding and managing social problems even though they are unfamiliar with ongoing social problems.


2017 ◽  
pp. 71-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
I. Goloshchapova ◽  
M. Andreev

The paper proposes a new approach to measure inflation expectations of the Russian population based on text mining of information on the Internet with the help of machine learning techniques. Two indicators were constructed on the base of readers’ comments to inflation news in major Russian economic media available in the web at the period from 2014 through 2016: with the help of words frequency and sentiment analysis of comments content. During the whole considered period of time both indicators were characterized by dynamics adequate to the development of macroeconomic situation and were also able to forecast dynamics of official Bank of Russia indicators of population inflation expectations for approximately one month in advance.


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