An intelligent context-aware threat detection and response model for smart cyber-physical systems

Noor, Zainab; Hina, Sadaf; Hayat, Faisal; Shah, Ghalib A

Abstract

Smart cities, businesses, workplaces, and even residences have all been converged by the Internet of Things (IoT). The types and characteristics of these devices vary depending on the industry 4.0 and have rapidly increased recently, especially in smart homes. These gadgets can expose users to serious cyber dangers because of a variety of computing constraints and vulnerabilities in the security-by-design concept. The smart home network testbed setup presented in this study is used to evaluate and validate the protection of the smart cyber-physical system. The context-aware threat intelligence and response model identifies the states of the aligned smart devices to distinguish between real-world typical and attack scenarios. It then dynamically writes specific rules for protection against potential cyber threats. The context-aware model is trained on IoT Research and Innovation Lab - Smart Home System (IRIL-SHS) testbed dataset. The labeled dataset is utilized to create a random forest model, which is subsequently used to train and test the context-aware threat intelligence SHS model's effectiveness and performance. Finally, the model's logic is used to gain rules to be included in Suricata signatures and the firewall rulesets for the response system. Significant values of the measuring parameters were found in the results. The presented model can be used for the real-time security of smart home cyber-physical systems and develops a vision of security challenges for Industry 4.0.

Citation

Noor, Z., Hina, S., Hayat, F., & Shah, G. A. (2023). An intelligent context-aware threat detection and response model for smart cyber-physical systems. Internet of Things, 23, 100843. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2023.100843

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 8, 2023
• Online Publication Date: Jun 16, 2023
• Publication Date: 2023-10
• Deposit Date: Jun 9, 2023
• Publicly Available Date: Jun 12, 2023
• Journal: Internet of Things
• Print ISSN: 2542-6605
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 23
• Pages: 100843
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2023.100843
• Keywords: smart homes; cyber-physical systems; context-aware IoT security; network traffic analysis; machine learning