Intrusion detection using hierarchical neural networks

Most intrusion detection system (IDS) with a single-level structure can only detect either misuse or anomaly attacks. Some IDSs with multi-level structure or multi-classifier are proposed to detect both attacks, but they are limited in adaptively learning. In this paper, two hierarchical IDS frameworks using Radial Basis Functions (RBF) are proposed. A serial hierarchical IDS (SHIDS) is proposed to identify misuse attack accurately and anomaly attacks adaptively. A parallel hierarchical IDS (PHIDS) is proposed to enhance the SHIDS's functionalities and performance. The experiments show that the two proposed IDSs can detect network intrusions in real-time, train new classifiers for novel intrusions automatically, and modify their structures adaptively after new classifiers are trained.