Ensembling of Attention-based Recurrent Units for Detection and Mitigation of Multiple Attacks in Cloud

In the recent years, number of threats to network security increases exponentially as the Internet users which poses serious threat in cloud storage application. Detection and defending against the multiple threats are currently a hot topic in industry and considered as one of the challenging research in academia. Many methodologies and algorithms devised to predict the different attacks. Still, most of the methods cannot simultaneously achieve high performance of prediction with a small number of false alarm rates. In this scenario, Deep Learning (DL) algorithms are appropriate and intelligent to categorize the multiple attacks. Still, most of the existing DL techniques are computationally inefficient that may degrade the performance in predicting the both normal and attack information. To overcome this aforementioned problem, this paper proposes the hybrid combination of attention maps with deep recurrent networks to mitigate the multiple attacks with low computational overhead. Initially, the pre-processing step is proposed to the inputs in a specified range. Later on, input data are fed into the Attention Enabled Gated Recurrent Networks (AEGRN) which is used to remove the redundant features and select the optimal features that aids for the better classification. Further to enhance the faster response, deep feed forward layers are proposed to replace the traditional deep neural networks. Numerous metrics for performance, including accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, and F1-score, are examined and analyzed as part of the thorough experimentation utilizing multiple datasets, including NSL-KDD-99, UNSW -2019, and CIDC-001. Comparisons of performance between the method that is suggested and existing models developed with DL are used to demonstrate the proposed algorithm's supremacy. The suggested framework surpasses the other DL models and has the best accuracy in predicting with little computational overhead, according to an investigation.

@article{M2023,
  title     = {Ensembling of Attention-based Recurrent Units for Detection and Mitigation of Multiple Attacks in Cloud},
  journal   = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
  volume    = {14},
  number    = {10},
  year      = {2023},
  publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
  author    = {Kalaivani M and Padmavathi G},
  doi       = {10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0141010},
  url       = {https://doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2023.0141010}
}