Taxonomy and challenges in machine learning-based approaches to detect attacks in the internet of things

The insecure growth of Internet-of-Things (IoT) can threaten its promising benefits to our daily life activities. Weak designs, low computational capabilities, and faulty protocol implementations are just a few examples that explain why IoT devices are nowadays highly prone to cyber-attacks. In this survey paper, we review approaches addressing this problem. We focus on machine learning-based solutions as a representative trend in the related literature. We survey and classify Machine Learning (ML)-based techniques that are suitable for the construction of Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) for IoT. We contribute with a detailed classification of each approach based on our own taxonomy. Open issues and research challenges are also discussed and provided.