%O cited By 19 %J Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience %L scholars12113 %D 2019 %N 5-6 %R 10.1166/jctn.2019.7929 %X Network Security is the most important aspect for all products and services offered by networking systems. The network density and usage in information systems, technical systems are humungous and is used by the entire world to provide connectivity from busiest hours to remote locations. Mission critical events, governmental organizations, information technology structures rely on continuous and smooth provision of network connection. This makes the basis of information security pillars-Confidentiality, which means that the data transferred between two users can be readable but should not be understandable, meaning it should be encrypted; Integrity, which focuses on the aspect of reliable message transfer preventing any kind of message tampering in the data transfer process; and finally Authentication and Availability, meaning that the user sending and receiving the data are genuine, and that the data is available, free from denial attacks. Copyright © 2019 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved. %P 2541-2549 %T Comparison of machine learning algorithms to build optimized Network intrusion detection system %I American Scientific Publishers %V 16 %A H. Parveen Sultana %A N. Shrivastava %A D.D. Dominic %A N. Nalini %A J.M. Balajee