Cyber-Attacks and Anomaly Detection in Networking Based on Deep Learning—A Survey

The rapid development in Internet has brought great convenience in our daily life, as well as cyber criminals focus shifted from real to virtual life as well. These security problems threaten user’s privacy and also increasing prominently because hackers launch attacks by injecting malicious software in to the network and disturbs normal flow of network activities. Traditional Artificial Intelligence specifically Machine Learning Algorithms is no longer effective in detecting new attack patterns and unknown abnormal behavior in the network traffic. The anomaly detection process helps in providing the report of malicious activities and gives better results. To detect abnormal traffic in network, we need a strong robust deep learning abnormal traffic detection framework. In this paper, different machine learning algorithms were studied in detecting the anomalies and cyber-attacks in network and to identify the problem in existing solutions.