Cascading of C4.5 Decision Tree and Support Vector Machine for Rule Based Intrusion Detection System

Main reason for the attack being introduced to the system is because of popularity of the internet. Information security has now become a vital subject. Hence, there is an immediate need to recognize and detect the attacks. Intrusion Detection is defined as a method of diagnosing the attack and the sign of malicious activity in a computer network by evaluating the system continuously. The software that performs such task can be defined as Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS). System developed with the individual algorithms like classification, neural networks, clustering etc. gives good detection rate and less false alarm rate. Recent studies show that the cascading of multiple algorithm yields much better performance than the system developed with the single algorithm. Intrusion detection systems that uses single algorithm, the accuracy and detection rate were not up to mark. Rise in the false alarm rate was also encountered. Cascading of algorithm is performed to solve this problem. This paper represents two hybrid algorithms for developing the intrusion detection system. C4.5 decision tree and Support Vector Machine (SVM) are combined to maximize the accuracy, which is the advantage of C4.5 and diminish the wrong alarm rate which is the advantage of SVM. Results show the increase in the accuracy and detection rate and less false alarm rate.