Work place: The NorthCap University, Gurugram, India
E-mail: shrutigautam310@gmail.com
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Research Interests: Computer systems and computational processes, Information Security, Network Security, Data Structures and Algorithms
Biography
Shruti, B.Tech student in The NorthCap University, Gurugram. Her research interest includes cyber security and machine learning.
By Prachi Sherya Shruti Vanshika
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5815/ijmecs.2019.05.04, Pub. Date: 8 May 2019
With the increase of digital data on the internet, computers are at higher risk of getting corrupted through cyber-attacks. Criminals are adopting more and more sophisticated techniques to steal sensitive information from the web. The botnet is one of the most aggressive threats as it combines lots of advanced malicious techniques. Detection of the botnet is one of the most serious concerns and prominent research area among the researchers. This paper proposes a detection model using the clustering algorithm to group bot traffic and normal traffic into two different clusters. Our contribution focused on applying K-means clustering algorithm to detect botnets based on their detection rate (true and false positives). Experimental results clearly demonstrate the fact that with the help of clustering we were able to separate the complete dataset into two entirely distinguishable clusters, where one cluster is representing the botnet traffic and other one representing the normal traffic.
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