MACHINE LEARNING IMPLEMENTATION FOR THE CLASSIFICATION OF ATTACKS ON WEB SYSTEMS. PART 1

• Main Authors: K. Smirnova, A. Smirnov, O. Olshevska
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies 2017-08-01
• Series: Avtomatizaciâ Tehnologičeskih i Biznes-Processov
• Subjects: Neural network; machine learning; intrusion detection system; protection of web applications; information security
• Online Access: http://journals.gsjp.eu/index.php/atbp/article/view/554

<p>The possibility of applying machine learning is considered for the classification of malicious requests to a Web application. This approach excludes the use of deterministic analysis systems (for example, expert systems), and based on the application of a cascade of neural networks or perceptrons on an approximate model to the real human brain. The main idea of the work is to enable to describe complex attack vectors consisting of feature sets, abstract terms for compiling a training sample, controlling the quality of recognition and classifying each of the layers (networks) participating in the work, with the ability to adjust not the entire network, But only a small part of it, in the training of which a mistake or inaccuracy crept in.  The design of the developed network can be described as a cascaded, scalable neural network.  The developed system of intrusion detection uses a three-layer neural network. Layers can be built independently of each other by cascades. In the first layer, for each class of attack recognition, there is a corresponding network and correctness is checked on this network. To learn this layer, we have chosen classes of things that can be classified uniquely as yes or no, that is, they are linearly separable. Thus, a layer is obtained not just of neurons, but of their microsets, which can best determine whether is there some data class in the query or not. The following layers are not trained to recognize the attacks themselves, they are trained that a set of attacks creates certain threats. This allows you to more accurately recognize the attacker's attempts to bypass the defense system, as well as classify the target of the attack, and not just its fact. Simple layering allows you to minimize the percentage of false positives.</p>