Secure Web Navigation with Intrusion Detection And Quota Management for SOHO and Small Scale Businesses

It's a modern day necessity and a trend to offer free and open web access to their customers and employees in small scale and Small Office Home Office (SOHO) business culture (restaurants, malls, coffee shops). Unfortunately, internet security and quota management are mostly overlooked which makes it an intruders' paradise. The existing solutions that incorporate machine learning based dynamic aspects, cannot be afforded by our target audience nor do they possess the extensive IT knowledge to configure and maintain them. To cater to this gap, this research proposes the network management device ‘Dynamic Defender’, targeted for small scale and SOHO type businesses which focuses on affordability and user-friendliness as key factors while incorporating cutting edge machine learning technologies. The Dynamic Defender's Intrusion Detection Engine is comprised of 99.13% accuracy with its base run on Artificial Neural Networks. URL Classification Engine produced high accuracy on all 3 machine learning algorithms which were used. Specifically, Random Forest with 92.94^% precision, Artificial Neural Networks with 90.33% precision and Logistic Regression with 91.41% precision. The Dynamic Bandwidth Management System consisted of an 89% accuracy level on the hybrid module of Linear Regression and Decision Trees while the Quota Management System (QMS) provided an accuracy level of 82% in K-Nearest Neighbors and 89% on Decision Tree algorithm.

I. Introduction

The Dynamic Defender research works toward an affordable plug-n-play network management and network security device for SOHO and small-scale businesses. The main goal of the research was to provide a solution for the following gap in cyber security domain: The lack of a network device which is affordable and easy to use, yet includes complex dynamic technologies like machine learning to dynamically handle intrusion detection, URL categorization and quota/bandwidth management, in SOHO and small scale businesses. Intrusion detection system can deliver 24/7 protection to the network from intrusions. It was able to identify signature-based intrusions as well as anomaly based intrusions.