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

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, cy...

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Published in:Energies (Basel) Vol. 13; no. 10; p. 2509
Main Authors: Shaukat, Kamran, Luo, Suhuai, Varadharajan, Vijay, Hameed, Ibrahim, Chen, Shan, Liu, Dongxi, Li, Jiaming
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Basel MDPI AG 01.05.2020
Subjects:
Artificial intelligence
Cybercrime
Cybersecurity
Datasets
Decision trees
Internet
intrusion detection system
Intrusion detection systems
Machine learning
Malware
malware detection
Performance evaluation
spam classification
ISSN:1996-1073, 1996-1073
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Summary: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.
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ISSN:1996-1073
1996-1073
DOI:10.3390/en13102509