Deep Learning and Big Data technologies for IoT Security

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Deep Learning and Big Data technologies for IoT Security
Pranesh Kathavate1, Suvidhi Solanki2
1Student, Computer Engineering Dept, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
2Student, Computer Engineering Dept, Vishwakarma University, Pune, India
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Abstract - An As there are millions to billions of
connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices and systems
sending enormous raw and processed data through the IoT
network, we need to be able to use big data analytical
techniques and solutions with an effective classification of
possible attacks using deep learning in order to protect the
security and privacy of IoT data and services from a wide
range of attackers. The vast volume of organized, semi-
structured, and unstructured data that is produced in the
digital era has made the term "big data" popular in recent
years. But this vast amount of data is trackable and can be
used for financial gain, which violates people's privacy. The
attack surfaces of the IoT system are investigated, along
with any potential risks related to each surface. The use of
deep learning to find security flaws has proved successful in
earlier research. The data generated by IoT devices is
abundant, diverse, and reliable. We then discuss the
advantages, disadvantages, and strengths of each Deep
Learning technique for IoT security. As a result, big data
technology makes it possible to organize and perform tasks
better. In this paper, we have focused on combining the
potentiality of Big Data processing with Deep Learning
Key Words: IoT Security, Big Data, Deep Learning, Botnet,
DDoS, Access Control, Malware detection, RNN
1.INTRODUCTION
The number of common devices equipped with sensors
and capable of internet communication has significantly
increased during the last few years. According to an article
in IoT Business News, the number of linked devices in the
IoT globe is predicted to reach about 75 billion by 2030.[1]
These devices are capable of recognizing their current
situation, sharing, and managing data that can be used for
a variety of purposes. The Internet of Things (IoT) was
quickly developed and adopted in a variety of industries,
including business, agriculture, and the military. Big data
is getting bigger and more complicated, especially from
new sources. These enormous datasets can't be processed
using conventional methods. Despite the overwhelming
amount of data, it might be helpful in resolving business
issues that you were previously unable to handle. These
gadgets are equipped with a range of sensors that enable
them to collect data in real time from distant physical
devices. For example, the Internet of Things (IoT) has
substantially increased traditional detection of
surrounding situations. IoT technologies have the
potential to gather, quantify, and grasp data about their
surroundings, enabling modernizations that improve
people's quality of life[3].The Internet of Things will
encompass all aspects of our lives, with applications
ranging from home automation to smart transportation to
smart agriculture to wearable devices and e-Health. IoT
devices are easy targets for botnet developers due to their
vulnerability. The proliferation of IoT malware presents
new security challenges for network managers. In this
part, we will first describe the intrinsic characteristics of
IoT ecosystems that make them difficult to safeguard.
Then, we discuss the most frequent types of vulnerabilities
found in IoT ecosystems, as well as how IoT botnets
operate. We then explain a number of proposed solutions
for IoT security, as well as their drawbacks. Deep learning
techniques are widely used for high-dimensional object
analysis. This is owing to their high ability to generalize
data. The method for adjusting such structures is focused
at approximating the formation of such a set that includes
both training elements and elements not encountered
during the training process. In [4], the author suggested a
deep learning-based approach for detecting internet
intrusions in the IoT. The authors underline the
framework's effectiveness within the context of the ''smart
city'' notion. The investigated strategy has the advantage
of improving the classification accuracy and creating a
trade-off balance between the correctness of attack
detection and the speed of this process. In [5}, the
research focuses on developing a distributed attack
detection system using a deep learning model. The created
system's application is the detection of assaults in the
social IoT.
1.1 Big Data
Big data is being particularly collected in massive
amounts, which raises complexity. Modern technology is
unable to handle these large data quantities. Innovative
data processing techniques are necessary because of the
massive volume of data collected and its quick change.
This terminology is required to improve judgment, gain a
deeper understanding of processes, and make them
function more effectively. We may refer to data as "Big
Data" if traditional or modern technology has trouble
gathering, processing, storing, filtering, and visualizing it.
In a word, "Big Data" technology involves gathering,
storing, and extracting knowledge from enormous data
volumes. Huge data is a term for a significant volume of

information that is characterized by deep relationships
between different data sets and a more complex form of
information. Apache applications like Hadoop, Spark,
Storm are a viable use-case.
1.2 Deep Learning
Neural networks are used in deep learning to carry out
complex calculations on vast volumes of data. It is made
up of numerous artificial neural network layers. Some of
the neurons in each of the layers have activation functions
that can be used to generate non-linear outputs. There are
three main types of neural networks namely ANN, CNN,
RNN. The neuronal structure of the human brain is
allegedly the source of inspiration for this technology.
Three methods namely supervised, semi-supervised, and
unsupervised learning are used in deep learning. In
supervised learning, the input is correctly labeled and
utilized to train the architecture; in unsupervised learning,
the input is incorrectly labeled and the architecture tries
to build a structure by extracting key information.
Fig 2. Branches of Deep Learning
1.2 IoT Security
Due to the fact that IoT is widely employed in mobile
devices, transportation facilities, public facilities, and
home appliances, this equipment can be used for IoT data
collection. Furthermore, equipment utilization in various
applications that are connected to the IoT network can be
operated remotely. IoT security is defined as the
protection of the entire IoT deployment architecture from
assaults. Various considerations must be considered when
building IoT security solutions. The following are the
security requirements that must be addressed when
building IoT security solutions. Deep learning and big data
technologies have enormous capabilities that can be used
to detect a pool of security breaches related to security
criteria. The connected cyber-physical infrastructure
causes IoT vulnerabilities. There is a strong demand for
solutions with real-time, scalable, and distributed
monitoring infrastructure technologies to reduce IoT
security threat that can be used to identify a pool of
security breaches related to security requirements.
Confidentiality allows information to be securely
transmitted during all communications. When information
is delivered without authentication or encryption, enemies
have the opportunity to breach the owner's privacy. Big
data technologies typically include safe data transport via
encryption approaches, preventing data from being
compromised by adversaries. An adversary may
compromise the integrity of an IoT system. As a result,
integrity ensures that the data received was not tampered
with during transmission. Furthermore, Apache Spark, a
big data solution, supports data quality checks in the
Spark DataFrame. Users can use this to perform data
integrity checks on the IoT system. In IoT systems,
availability refers to ensuring that legitimate users may
access the system and that illegitimate access is denied.
One of the key purposes of big data technology is to assure
the user's omnipresence. Furthermore, they can be run on
several nodes, ensuring the application's high availability.
Authentication is the process of verifying the identity of
the peer with whom IoT devices communicate.
Furthermore, it is concerned with valid users having
suitable network access for network functions such as IoT
devices and network control. Furthermore, big data
solutions like Apache Spark have authentication
techniques for Remote Procedure Call (RPC) channels.
Access control in an IoT system should act as a means of
ensuring that the authenticated nodes are limited to
access what they are privileged to and nothing more.
Furthermore, it is known that big data technologies
provide access control support for its applications. A filter
is necessary for this to be achieved and each application
can be equipped with its own access control list.
2. PROBLEM STATEMENT
There have been various sorts of studies in the domain of
big data security in IoT contexts. However, it has been
discovered that massive data security is a difficult
operation. Deep learning algorithms for classification must
be employed for attack categorization. Furthermore, an
optimization mechanism is necessary to obtain the
optimal answer, so that deep learning-based training and
testing processes deliver improved accuracy as well as
better performance. Filtering a dataset on the basis of

optimal value would result in excellent accuracy and
performance.
3. RELATED WORK
The designed system architecture allows for the updating
of each cooperative node's learning parameters on a single
master node and the distribution of the resulting updates
to the worker nodes. According to the research made by
the author [6], The deep neural network is considered in
the context of mobile big data analytics in the following
distributed learning problem. The proposed method was
implemented in the Spark environment and consists of the
following steps, learning partial models (worker nodes
tune neural networks using different data partitions),
parameter averaging (model parameters are transmitted
to the master node for averaging), and parameter
dissemination (updated parameters are passed to worker
nodes, which tune neural networks once more). This
process is done multiple times until the convergence
condition is met. Since a two-layer neural network has a
straightforward structure and a respectable learning rate,
we have decided to focus on it for the time being.
Investigation into the practicality of deep neural networks
is planned for the future.
Fig 3. DL feature extraction for IoT Security
Big data analytics can be used in IoT security to identify
patterns, anomalies, and potential threats. Deep Learning
threat detection with a big data analytics model can be
used to detect potential security threats by analyzing data
from various sources such as network traffic, device logs,
and user behavior. This can help identify abnormal
patterns and behavior that could indicate a potential
attack. By using real-time analytics, it is possible to
monitor IoT devices and networks continuously, which
can help detect and respond to threats as they occur. Big
data analytics can be used to analyze historical data to
identify trends and predict potential threats. This can help
security teams to proactively implement security
measures to prevent attacks before they happen. Big data
analytics can be used to correlate data from multiple
sources, including IoT devices, to identify potential
security threats. By correlating data from various sources,
it is possible to identify patterns and trends that may not
be apparent from individual data sources. Apache Hadoop
can perform processing of more than terabytes and
petabytes of data. From the above figure, at a very large
scale, we can see petabytes and exabytes of data being
fetched from IoT sensors can be safely stored inside sink
nodes and there would be a single junction sink node
where data will be stored from all interconnected nodes.In
the event of a security breach, big data analytics can be
used to conduct forensic analysis of data to identify the
root cause of the breach and help prevent similar attacks
in the future. HDFS will play a vital role in storing this
humongous sensor data.
Apache Hadoop is a batch processing solution that is both
scalable and fault-tolerant.Hadoop can handle petabytes of
data and allows programs to operate on numerous nodes.
Furthermore, log data is broken down into blocks and
distributed to Hadoop cluster nodes. Furthermore,
Hadoop is popular because of its ability to quickly retrieve
and search log data, as well as its scalability, faster data
insertion, and fault tolerance. [6]
Apache Spark is a unifying architecture used for
distributed data processing. Apache Spark adds a data
sharing concept called Resilient Distributed Dataset (RDD)
to the MapReduce architecture. Apache Spark can capture
and process workloads such as SQL, streaming, machine
learning, and graph processing using this extension. [6].
Apache Storm is a real-time calculation system that is
open source. Apache Storm makes it possible to process
data streams in real time. It can also process millions of
tuples per second per node. It is quick, scalable, fault-
tolerant, and easy to use. It also has the ability to
incorporate databases into the processing.[6].Overall, big
data analytics can be a powerful tool in improving IoT
security by enabling security teams to detect and respond
to threats in real-time, predict potential threats, and
conduct forensic analysis to prevent future attacks.

The vulnerabilities from open ended IoT sensors have
increased over the period of time. These sensors can be
attacked through some of the common malware attack
practices such as BotNet, DDOS attacks, routing attacks,
middleware attacks etc. A botnet is a network of multiple
bots designed to undertake harmful activities on the target
network and are controlled by a single unit known as the
botmaster via command and control protocol. Bots are
infected computers that are remotely controlled by the
botmaster and are used to carry out malicious operations.
Botnet sizes range from a few hundred bots in a small
botnet to 50,000 hosts in a large botnet. Hackers distribute
botnet malware and operate in secrecy, leaving no trace of
their presence, and can remain effective and operational
for years. Communication with bots is required to provide
commands to the bots in order for them to carry out
destructive operations [7].
Fig 4. Botnet Architecture
Botmaster always stays hidden in the botnet network by
using minimal bandwidth and providing concealed
services. Botmaster and bots constantly communicate via
command and control server. Bots' principal purpose is to
remain inconspicuous until they are necessary to do given
duties. Bots are difficult to identify since they do not
disturb regular
host operation and remain silent until they receive a
command from the botmaster to undertake assigned
operations. The botnet's life cycle is divided into
numerous stages, including dissemination and infection,
secondary injection, connection, malicious command and
control, update, and maintenance. DDoS attacks are the
most popular type of cyber-attack in which the attacker's
computers simultaneously transmit a significant amount
of malicious traffic to the target server in order to
overwhelm the target network [7]. DDoS attacks aim to
dramatically disrupt regular server operation by flooding
the target device with large traffic, such as fraudulent
requests, in order to oversaturate its capacity, causing
disruption or denial of service to legitimate traffic. DDoS
assaults have an impact on the server's system resources
such as CPU and memory, and can also cause the network
bandwidth to become oversaturated with a significant
volume of data. As a result, genuine computers will be
denied service since the server is preoccupied with
dealing with the DDoS attack. DDoS attacks are launched
by hackers using a botnet. Following below table
demonstrates the most commonly detected attacks at
various layers of execution.
Table 1. A list of some IoT security layer attacks
Physical Layer
Attacks
Network
Layer Attacks
Application
Layer Attacks
Botnet Man in the
Middle
Malware
Sleep
Deprivation
Denial of
Service (DOS)
Phishing
Node Tampering
and Jamming
Routing
Attacks
Code Injection
EavesDropping Middleware
Attacks
BGP Hijacking
Datasets are one of the basic ways to practice and study
detection of several attacks through processing some of
the commonly found patterns in Big Data being fetched
from the IoT Sensors. The following datasets are
frequently used for experimental analysis on deep
learning, big data technologies, and/or IoT security or
network security.
IoTPOT: The IoTPOT dataset contains IoT network traffic,
regular and malware-based network traffic, which is
primarily utilized in DDoS assaults. The dataset is divided
into five malware families: ZORRO, GAYFGT, KOS[7]
Kyoto: In 2006, the Kyoto dataset was created for
Intrusion Detection System (IDS) research. This dataset is
based on three years of real-world network traffic data.
This dataset also includes 14 features obtained from the

KDDCUP99 as well as an additional 10 features.
Furthermore, their honeypot data includes 50,033,015
normal sessions and 43,043,255 assault sessions.
Furthermore, the three attack kinds, exploits, shellcodes,
and malware, are covered.
CICIDS2017: The Canadian Institute for Cybersecurity
(CIC) generated the CICIDS2017 dataset in 2017. It
comprises data from real-world benign and malicious
network traffic. This dataset has 225,746 records and 80
characteristics in total. Furthermore, this dataset includes
Brute Force, DDoS[7].
CIDDS-001: CIDDS-001 is a labeled flow-based dataset
designed for NIDS evaluation based on anomalies. The
dataset includes normal and attack traffic statistics
collected over a four-week period. This dataset also
includes 14 features and four types of assaults, including
DoS, PortScan, Brute Force, and Ping Scan. Sometimes,
detecting advanced issues could not be possible by just
merely going through the processing of the datasets
mentioned above. We can achieve enhanced assault
detection by making use of certain mathematical
algorithms. Deep Learning based mathematical solutions
provide a way to detect complex and difficult patterns
used by hacking sources for IoT Security
The Support Vector Machine
The SVM is built by establishing a separating hyperplane
with the property of equidistance from objects of different
classes that are close to it. The algorithmic expression is
depicted below:
where wi – weight coefficients, which are the product of
nonzero Lagrange multipliers and the desired output
values, xi – support vectors (i = 1, . . . , Ms), b – bias
parameter.
KNN (K-nearest neighbors) method
The KNN can match the analyzed vector to a label of that
class, whose instances have the highest number among all
K training items that are closest to the provided vector z.
Formally, the methodology is as follows:
where x 0 1 , ... , x 0 k – training vectors for which the value
PK i=1 z − x 0 i is minimal among all training vectors,
omega classes.We may state that this strategy does not
The two layer Artificial Neural Network (ANN)
A two-layer artificial neural network is a layered structure
that performs linear and nonlinear transformations on the
input vector. The composition of the non-linear activation
function and the weighted sum of the components of that
vector that is output for the (k 1)-th layer is conducted
after passing through each k-th layer.
customizable parameters are there in the learning process,
ϕ - activation function, θ (1) and Hθ (2) are bias
parameters.
Fig 6. Algorithm detecting IoT security attacks through
deep learning
The above algorithm is a high-level understanding of
categorization of the raw amount of massive data fetched
from IoT sensors in the sink nodes of the hadoop cluster.
The algorithm works in an efficient way through fetching
terabytes and petabytes of data transactions through
various physical IoT devices which are connected in an
integrated environment. Data gets transformed and
collected into a CSV or Excel file format to perform further
necessitate any prior training. It is sufficient to keep the
whole training sample for it to function

processing. As the obtained data consists of a lot of
unstructured or unfiltered content, we basically create and
define an optimized solution which helps to appropriately
filter the data values during the processing phase and gets
ready for the conventional deep learning execution.
In the following table below, we have outlined the
research that has included deep learning and big data
technologies, including big data technologies, deep
learning architectures and IoT security related possible
threat detections.
Table 2. Big data technologies with Deep Learning
architectures
3. CONCLUSIONS
The growing number of IoT devices has increased the
amount of awareness of the security dangers associated
with them. IoT devices have been shown to be vulnerable
as a result of recent increased attacks such as the Carna
and Mirai botnets. Furthermore, IoT devices generate a
significant volume, velocity, and variety of data. Existing
solutions become less efficient as a result, necessitating
the use of modern solutions. Deep learning has gained
popularity among academics and organizations due to its
high accuracy, capacity to learn deep features, and lack of
human supervision.
Furthermore, big data technologies have sparked
attention due to their ability to process enormous volumes
of data as well as their ability to process data in a range of
scenarios such as real-time, batch, and stream.Our findings
show that many studies have combined deep learning with
IoT security or deep learning with big data technologies;
however, there is a lack of research in combining deep
learning and big data technologies for IoT security;
however, our investigations revealed that two studies
have demonstrated the efficiency and feasibility of
combining deep learning and big data technologies for IoT
security over traditional models.
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