Comparative Assessment of Process Mining for Supporting IoT Predictive Security

The growth of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) has been characterized by the large-scale deployment of sensors and connected objects. These ones are integrated with other Internet resources in order to elaborate more complex systems and applications. Security management is a major challenge for these systems due to their complexity, their heterogeneity and the limited resources of their devices. In this article we evaluate the exploitability and performance of a process mining approach for detecting misbehaviors in such systems. We describe the considered architecture and detail its operation, from the generation of behavioral models to the detection of potential attacks. We formalize several alternative commonly-used detection methods, including elliptic envelope, support-vector machine, local outlier factor, and isolation forest techniques. After presenting a proof-of-concept prototype, we quantify comparatively the benefits and limits of our process mining solution combined with data pre-processing, through extensive experiments based on different industrial datasets.