Generating Comprehensive Data with Protocol Fuzzing for Applying Deep Learning to Detect Network Attacks

23 Dec 2020  ·  Qingtian Zou, Anoop Singhal, Xiaoyan Sun, Peng Liu ·

Network attacks have become a major security concern for organizations worldwide and have also drawn attention in the academics. Recently, researchers have applied neural networks to detect network attacks with network logs. However, public network data sets have major drawbacks such as limited data sample variations and unbalanced data with respect to malicious and benign samples. In this paper, we present a new approach, protocol fuzzing, to automatically generate high-quality network data, on which deep learning models can be trained. Our findings show that fuzzing generates data samples that cover real-world data and deep learning models trained with fuzzed data can successfully detect real network attacks.

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