EFFECTIVENESS HYPERPARAMETER TUNING ON RANDOM FOREST, LINEAR DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS, LOGISTIC REGRESSION AND NAÏVE BAYES ALGORITHMS FOR DETECTING DOS NETWORK ATTACKS

Denial of Service (DoS) attacks are a major threat to network security, characterized by overwhelming system resources with illegitimate requests. Such attacks can disrupt critical services and cause substantial financial losses. However, there is still a need for a more efficient model to detect DoS attack with high accuracy. The aim of this research is to determine the impact of hyperparameter tuning on the four algorithms to identify the best algorithm for detecting DoS network attacks. The research method involves data preprocessing, feature selection, encoding, balancing using SMOTE (Synthetic Minority Over-Sampling Techinuque) and evaluation using confusion matrix. This research use the NSL-KDD dataset because it is relevant for DoS attack detection and flexible for testing various classification algorithms and utilizing hyperparameter tuning. This study evaluates the effectiveness hyperparameter tuning on several machine learning alghorithms namely Random Forest, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Logistic Regression and Naïve Bayes in detecting DoS attacks. Results indicate that Random Forest achieves highest accuracy (99,97%) and robust performance across all metrics, demonstrating superior generalization and precision. LDA, Logistic Regression and Naïve Bayes also performed well but fell short of Random Forest in handling complex patterns in the dataset. The utilization of hyperparameter tuning can improve the accuracy, consistency and efficiency of the algorithm so as to optimize the combination of various parameters in detecting DoS attacks. The findings provide valuable insights into selecting suitable algorithms for future implementations in cybersecurity systems.