IoT Bonet and Network Intrusion Detection using Dimensionality Reduction and Supervised Machine Learning

In a present-day world there are different types of attacks being launched on computing devices. World is experiencing more and more cyber-attacks and types of attacks are also increasing. For example, an IoT device in a home network can act as a botnet attacking other devices or there could be man in the middle attack. As time goes by more and more devices are being connected within any given network. All these devices will be vulnerable to attacks if any one of the devices is compromised within the network. This complicates Intrusion Detection in any given network. Manual detection and intervention is nearly impossible. Hence it is quintessential to detect different types of attacks with more confidence with less computation complexity and time. A lot of research work has already been done in this area where the attacks have been studied separately. In this paper we focus on detecting intrusions including IoT botnet attacks and other types of network attacks. To achieve this, we build a multiclass classification using supervised learning models along with the dimensionality reduction technique. Numerous studies on ML-based IDS have been using KDD or the upgraded versions of KDD dataset. In this study we used a new dataset, IoT network Intrusion Detection dataset.