Intrusion detection using federated learning with neural networks

Abstract

The amount of information shared amongst different devices and the variety of novel methods of network crimes have exponentially increased in recent years because of the widespread use of the internet. Quick identification of all types of attacks would not be possible with conventional methods including firewalls, which focused on data filtering. Dealing with the timely recognition of these types of assaults is very successful for intrusion detection systems (IDS) grounded on ML algorithms. They can efficiently manage the enormous amount of data in order to identify any harmful behaviour. Every network activity is searched for any possibly dangerous activity using IDS based on machine learning. The main objective of the planned effort is to provide analytical analyses of such current intrusion detection systems. Furthermore, examined in this work are the useful data sets and several techniques already in use to develop an effective IDS using single, hybrid, and ensemble machine learning algorithms. The approaches in the literature have then been investigated under several criteria in line to provide a clear road and direction for the next projects that will be successful. Nowadays, companies of all kinds include an intrusion detection system (IDS), which inhibits cybercrime to protect the network, resources, and private data. Many strategies have been suggested and implemented up till now to prevent uncivil behaviour. Since machine learning (ML) approaches are successful, the proposed approach applied several ML models for the intrusion detection system. The CIC IOT 2023 Dataset is the one applied in this paper. Tested were several techniques including random forest, XG Boost, logistic regression, MLP model, and RNN. Following fine-tuning, the federated learning model using neural networks had the best accuracy—99.84%.