Machine learning model approach in cyber attack threat detection in security operation center

The evolution of technology roles attracted cyber security threats not only compromise stable technology but also cause significant financial loss for organizations and individuals. As a result, organizations must create and implement a comprehensive cybersecurity strategy to minimize further loss. The founding of a cybersecurity surveillance center is one of the optimal adopted strategies, known as security operation center (SOC). The strategy has become the forefront of digital systems protection. We propose strategy optimization to prevent or mitigate cyberattacks by analyzing and detecting log anomalies using machine learning models. This study employs two machine learning models: the naïve Bayes model with multinomial, Gaussian, and Bernoulli variants, and the support vector machine (SVM) model with radial basis function (RBF), linear, polynomial, and sigmoid kernel variants. The hyperparameters in both models are then optimized. The models with optimized hyperparameters are subsequently trained and tested. The experimental results indicate that the best performance is achieved by the RBF kernel SVM model, with an accuracy of 79.75%, precision of 80.8%, recall of 79.75%, and F1-score of 80.01%; and the Gaussian naïve Bayes model, with an accuracy of 70.0%, precision of 80.27%, recall of 70.0%, and F1-score of 70.66%. Overall, both models perform relatively well and are classified in the very good category (75%‒89%).