NCMD: Benign-Anchored Feature Selection for Imbalanced Network Intrusion Detection

Feature selection is critical for network intrusion detection systems NIDS operating under high-dimensional, highly imbalanced traffic, as found in operational and defense networks. Traditional filter methods rank features using global statistics computed symmetrically across classes and thus fai...

Evaluating MCC for Low-Frequency Cyberattack Detection in Imbalanced Intrusion Detection Data

In many real-world network environments, several types of cyberattacks occur at very low rates compared to benign traffic, making them difficult for intrusion detection systems IDS to detect reliably. This imbalance causes traditional evaluation metrics, such as accuracy, to often overstate model...