An Efficient Framework for Detection and Classification of IoT Botnet Traffic

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) has become an integral requirement to equip common life. According to IDC, the number of IoT devices may increase exponentially up to a trillion in near future. Thus, their cyberspace having inherent vulnerabilities leads to various possible serious cyber-attacks. So, the security of IoT systems becomes the prime concern for its consumers and businesses. Therefore, to enhance the reliability of IoT security systems, a better and real-time approach is required. For this purpose, the creation of a real-time dataset is essential for IoT traffic analysis. In this paper, the experimental testbed has been devised for the generation of a real-time dataset using the IoT botnet traffic in which each of the bots consists of several possible attacks. Besides, an extensive comparative study of the proposed dataset and existing datasets are done using popular Machine Learning (ML) techniques to show its relevance in the real-time scenario.