Intrusion Detection Systems

Intrusion detection datasets

The evaluation datasets play a vital role in the validation of any IDS approach, by allowing us to assess the proposed method’s capability in detecting intrusive behavior. The datasets used for network packet analysis in commercial products are not easily available due to privacy issues. However, there are a few publicly available datasets such as DARPA, KDD, NSL-KDD, and ADFA-LD, and they are widely used as benchmarks. Existing datasets that are used for building and comparative evaluation of IDS are discussed in this section along with their features and limitations.