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DOI: 10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110783
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A Multi-Class Neural Network Model for Rapid Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks

Author 1: Haifaa Alzahrani
Author 2: Maysoon Abulkhair
Author 3: Entisar Alkayal

International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), Volume 11 Issue 7, 2020.

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Abstract: The tremendous number of Internet of Things (IoT) devices and their widespread use have made our lives considerably more manageable and safer. At the same time, however, the vulnerability of these innovations means that our day-to-day existence is surrounded by insecure devices, thereby facilitating ways for cybercriminals to launch various attacks by large-scale robot networks (botnets) through IoT. In consideration of these issues, we propose a neural network-based model to detect IoT botnet attacks. Furthermore, the model provides multi-classification, which is necessary for taking appropriate countermeasures to understand and stop the attacks. In addition, it is independent and does not require specific equipment or software to fetch the required features. According to the con-ducted experiments, the proposed model is accurate and achieves 99.99%, 99.04% as F1 score for two benchmark datasets in addition to fulfilling IoT constraints regarding complexity and speed. It is less complicated in terms of computations, and it provides real-time detection that outperformed the state-of-the-art, achieving a detection time ratio of 1:5 and a ratio of 1:8.

Keywords: Internet of Things (IoT); IoT botnets; IoT security; intrusion detection system; deep learning; neural network

Haifaa Alzahrani, Maysoon Abulkhair and Entisar Alkayal, “A Multi-Class Neural Network Model for Rapid Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 11(7), 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110783

@article{Alzahrani2020,
title = {A Multi-Class Neural Network Model for Rapid Detection of IoT Botnet Attacks},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110783},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2020.0110783},
year = {2020},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {11},
number = {7},
author = {Haifaa Alzahrani and Maysoon Abulkhair and Entisar Alkayal}
}



Copyright Statement: This is an open access article licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, even commercially as long as the original work is properly cited.

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