Web Server Logs Preprocessing for Web Intrusion Detection

Web Server Logs Preprocessing for Web Intrusion Detection

Securing e-commerce sites has become a necessity as they process critical and sensitive data to customers and organizations. When a customer navigates through an e-commerce site his/her clicks are recorded in web log file. Analyzing these log files using data mining reveal many interesting patterns. These results are used in many different applications and recently in detecting attacks on web. ...

Preprocessing of Web Logs

Today’s real world databases are highly susceptible to noisy, missing and inconsistent data due to their typically huge size data and their origin from multiple, heterogeneous sources. Hence, pre-processing of data is necessary to help improve the quality of data and consequently the mining results. There are number of data pre-processing techniques. In this paper, we would like to discuss two ...

Advanced Techniques for Analyzing Web Server Logs

This paper gives an account of the practical experiences made in generating special statistical information of web server logs. It emphasizes the problem of combining different data sources to retrieve acceptable working results. Several critical aspects in analyzing logfiles are discussed and solutions are described. The structural capacities of multilingual online authoring systems, especiall...

Software Issues in Characterizing Web Server Logs

Visualising web server logs for a Web 1.0 audience using Web 2.0 technologies

Web server logs have been used via techniques such as user profiling and recommendation systems to improve user experience on websites. The data contained within server logs however has generally been inaccessible to nontechnical stakeholders on website development projects due to the terminology and presentation used. We describe a process that uses visualisation to enable these stakeholders t...