Abstract

An increase in global connectivity and rapid expansion of computer usage and computer networks has made the security of the computer system an important issue with the industries and cyber communities being faced with new kinds of attacks daily The high complexity of cyberattacks poses a great challenge to the protection of cyberinfrastructures Confidentiality Integrity and availability of sensitive information stored on it Intrusion detection systems monitors network traffic for suspicious Intrusive activity and issues alert when such activity is detected Building Intrusion detection system that is computationally efficient and effective requires the use of relevant features of the network traffics packets identified by feature selection algorithms This paper implemented K-Nearest Neighbor and Na ve Bayes Intrusion detection models using relevant features of the UNSW-NB15 Intrusion detection dataset selected by Gain Ratio Information Gain Relief F and Correlation rankers feature selection techniques