Attack and Anomaly Detection in IoT Networks using Machine Learning

For quite a few years now the name Internet of Things (IoT) has been around. IoT is a technology capable of revolutionizing our way of life, in sectors ranging from transportation to health, from entertainment to our interactions with government. Even this great opportunity presents a number of critical obstacles. As we strive to develop policies, regulations, and governance that form this development without stifling creativity, the increase in the number of devices and the frequency of that increase presents problems to our security and freedom. This work attentions on the security aspect of IoT networks by examining the serviceability of machine learning algorithms in detecting anomalies that are contained within such network data. It discusses (Machine Learning (ML) algorithms which are used effectively in relatively similar situations and compares them using several parameters and methods. The following algorithms are implemented in this work: Random Forest (RF), Naive Bayes (NB), Support Vector Machine (SVM), and Decision tree Algorithm. The Random Forest algorithm obtained the best results, with an accuracy of 99.5 per cent.