IDS in IoT using Machine Learning and Blockchain
Received: 27 April 2023 | Revised: 17 May 2023 and 22 May 2023 | Accepted: 30 May 2023 | Online: 15 July 2023
Corresponding author: Nada Abdu Alsharif
Abstract
The rise of IoT devices has brought forth an urgent need for enhanced security and privacy measures, as IoT devices are vulnerable to cyber-attacks that compromise the security and privacy of users. Traditional security measures do not provide adequate protection for such devices. This study aimed to investigate the use of machine learning and blockchain to improve the security and privacy of IoT devices, creating an intrusion detection system powered by machine learning algorithms and using blockchain to encrypt interactions between IoT devices. The performance of the whole system and different machine learning algorithms was evaluated on an IoT network using simulated attack data, achieving a detection accuracy of 99.9% when using Random Forrest, demonstrating its effectiveness in detecting attacks on IoT networks. Furthermore, this study showed that blockchain technology could improve security and privacy by providing a tamper-proof decentralized communication system.
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IoT, machine learning, blockchain, IDS, cyber security, neural networksDownloads
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