Deep Learning Algorithms for Cybersecurity Applications: A Technological and Status Review

Abstract

Cybersecurity mainly prevents the hardware, software, and data present in the system that has an active internet connection from external attacks. Organizations mainly deploy cybersecurity for their databases and systems to prevent it from unauthorized access. Different forms of attacks like phishing, spear-phishing, a drive-by attack, a password attack, denial of service, etc. are responsible for these security problems In this survey, we analyzed and reviewed the usage of deep learning algorithms for Cybersecurity applications. Deep learning which is also known as Deep Neural Networks includes machine learning techniques that enable the network to learn from unsupervised data and solve complex problems. Here, 80 papers from 2014 to 2019 have been used and successfully analyzed. Deep learning approaches such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Auto Encoder (AE), Deep Belief Network (DBN), Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Generative Adversal Network (GAN) and Deep Reinforcement Learning (DIL) are used to categorize the papers referred. Each specific technique is effectively discussed with its algorithms, platforms, dataset, and potential benefits. The paper related to deep learning with cybersecurity is mainly published in the year 2018 in a large number and 18% of published articles originate from the UK. In addition, the papers are selected from a variety of journals, and 30% of papers used are from the Elsevier journal. From the experimental analysis, it is clear that the deep learning model improved the accuracy, scalability, reliability, and performance of the cybersecurity applications when applied in realtime.