With the growth and development of the Internet, the devices and the hosts connected to the Internet have become the target for attackers and intruders. Consequently, the integrity of systems and data has become more sophisticated. Meanwhile, many institutions suffer from money-losing or other losses due to attacks on computer systems. Accordingly, the detection of intrusion and attacks has become a challenge and a vital necessity at the same time. Many different methods were used to build intrusion detection systems (IDSs), and all these methods seek to a plus the efficiency of intrusion detection systems. This paper is a survey which tries to covers some of the optimization algorithms used in the field of intrusion detection in past ten years such as Artificial Bee Colony (ABC), Genetic Algorithm (GA), Cuttlefish Algorithms (CFA), and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO). It is hoped that this review will provide useful insights about the intrusion detection literature and is a good source for anyone interested in applying one of the used optimization algorithms in the field of intrusion detection.

Nowadays, with the rapid prevalence of networked machines and Internet technologies, intrusion detection systems are increasingly in demand. Consequently, numerous illicit activities by external and internal attackers need to be detected. Thus, earlier detection of such activities is necessary for protecting data and information. In this paper, we investigated the use of the Cuttlefish optimization algorithm as a new rule generation method for the classification task to deal with the intrusion detection problem. The effectiveness of the proposed method was tested using KDD Cup 99 dataset based on different evaluation methods. The obtained results were also compared with the results obtained by some classical well-known algorithms namely Decision Tree (DT), Naïve Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and K-Nearest Neighborhood (K-NN). Our experimental results showed that the proposed method demonstrates a good classification performance and provides significantly preferable results when compared with the performance of other traditional algorithms. The proposed method produced 93.9%, 92.2%, and 94.7% in terms of precision, recall, and area under curve, respectively.