CoAP-DoS: An IoT Network Intrusion Data Set

Abstract

The need for secure Internet of Things (IoT) devices is growing as IoT devices are becoming more integrated into vital networks. Many systems rely on these devices to remain available and provide reliable service. Denial of service attacks against IoT devices are a real threat due to the fact these low power devices are very susceptible to denial-of-service attacks. Machine learning enabled network intrusion detection systems are effective at identifying new threats, but they require a large amount of data to work well. There are many network traffic data sets but very few that focus on IoT network traffic. Within the IoT network data sets there is a lack of CoAP denial of service data. We propose a novel data set covering this gap. We develop a new data set by collecting network traffic from real CoAP denial of service attacks and compare the data on multiple different machine learning classifiers. We show that the data set is effective on many classifiers.