Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks pose a significant threat to the
stability and reliability of online systems. Effective and early detection of
such attacks is pivotal for safeguarding the integrity of networks. In this
work, we introduce an enhanced approach for DDoS attack detection by leveraging
the capabilities of Deep Residual Neural Networks (ResNets) coupled with
synthetic oversampling techniques. Because of the inherent class imbalance in
many cyber-security datasets, conventional methods often struggle with false
negatives, misclassifying subtle DDoS patterns as benign. By applying the
Synthetic Minority Over-sampling Technique (SMOTE) to the CICIDS dataset, we
balance the representation of benign and malicious data points, enabling the
model to better discern intricate patterns indicative of an attack. Our deep
residual network, tailored for this specific task, further refines the
detection process. Experimental results on a real-world dataset demonstrate
that our approach achieves an accuracy of 99.98%, significantly outperforming
traditional methods. This work underscores the potential of combining advanced
data augmentation techniques with deep learning models to bolster
cyber-security defenses.

通过利用深度残差神经网络（ResNets）和合成过采样技术，我们引入了一种增强的分布式拒绝服务（DDoS）攻击检测方法，用于有效和早期检测此类攻击，并平衡良性和恶意数据点的表示以更好地辨别攻击特征，实验证明我们的方法在真实数据集上达到了 99.98% 的准确度，显著优于传统方法，突显了将先进的数据增强技术与深度学习模型相结合以增强网络安全防御的潜力。