This application provides an artificial intelligence (AI)-based network security protection method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes obtaining access traffic that needs to be verified and to be transmitted to a target network address; extracting a data statistical feature of each of a plurality of sessions included in the access traffic that needs to be verified; invoking a neural network model, and based on the data statistical feature of each session, to classify each session as normal or abnormal; identifying a session classified as abnormal in the access traffic that needs to be verified as attack access traffic; and obtaining a source address of the attack access traffic, and screening attack access traffic to be transmitted to the target network address from the source address.