Re: HTTP LOG files Labeling

[Stefano Zanero <zanero () elet polimi it>]

Christian Bockermann wrote:

> @wang: You might have want to have a look at the paper "Anomaly 
> Detection of Web-based Attacks" by Giovanni Vigna and Christopher 
> Kruegel (as well as "A multi-model approach to the detection of 
> web-based attacks" by them).
> They did log file analysis on access log data using statistical models. 
> This might work for you as a labeling approach.

Using an anomaly detector (with its false positives and negatives) to 
label a dataset to evaluate another anomaly detector is the biblical 
"blind leading the blind" ;)

Stefano

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