@inproceedings{0ebd3134b6984768bd1f0df8a9e0cb23,
title = "Errors in the CICIDS2017 Dataset and the Significant Differences in Detection Performances It Makes",
abstract = "Among the difficulties encountered in building datasets to evaluate intrusion detection tools, a tricky part is the process of labelling the events into malicious and benign classes. The labelling correctness is paramount for the quality of the evaluation of intrusion detection systems but is often considered as the ground truth by practitioners and is rarely verified. Another difficulty lies in the correct capture of the network packets. If it is not the case, the characteristics of the network flows generated from the capture could be modified and lead to false results. In this paper, we present several flaws we identified in the labelling of the CICIDS2017 dataset and in the traffic capture, such as packet misorder, packet duplication and attack that were performed but not correctly labelled. Finally, we assess the impact of these different corrections on the evaluation of supervised intrusion detection approaches.",
keywords = "dataset labelling, intrusion detection, machine learning",
author = "Maxime Lanvin and Gimenez, \{Pierre Fran{\c c}ois\} and Yufei Han and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Majorczyk and Ludovic M{\'e} and {\'E}ric Totel",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.; 17th International Conference on Risks and Security of Internet and Systems, CRiSIS 2022 ; Conference date: 07-12-2022 Through 09-12-2022",
year = "2023",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-031-31108-6\_2",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783031311079",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "18--33",
editor = "Slim Kallel and Mohamed Jmaiel and \{Hadj Kacem\}, Ahmed and Mohammad Zulkernine and Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric Cuppens and Nora Cuppens",
booktitle = "Risks and Security of Internet and Systems - 17th International Conference, CRiSIS 2022, Revised Selected Papers",
}