Towards machine learning based IoT intrusion detection service

Abstract

IoT Security is one of the most critical issues when developing, implementing and deploying IoT platforms. IoT refers to the ability of communication, monitoring and remote control of automated devices through the internet. Due to low computational capabilities, less power, and constrained technologies, IoT is vulnerable to various cyber attacks. Security mechanisms such as cryptography and authentication are hard to apply due to the aforementioned constraints on IoT devices. To overcome this issue Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) play main role as a high-security solution. This paper shows a proposed IDS based on machine learning techniques to be implemented into IoT platforms as a service. We used Random forest as a classifier to detect intrusions, then we applied neural network classifier to detect the categorization of the detected intrusion. The experimental results showed the proposed model can effectively detect intrusions, yet categorization of the intrusion suffers from low accuracy and high bias.