Intrusion Detection for Cyber-Physical Security System Using Long Short-Term Memory Model

Abstract

In the present context, the deep learning approach is highly applicable for identifying cyber-attacks on intrusion detection systems (IDS) in cyber-physical security systems. As a key part of network security defense, cyber-attacks can change and penetrate the security of the network system, then, the role of an IDS is to detect suspicious behaviors and act appropriately to protect the network from the onset of attacks. Machine learning and deep learning techniques are important for current intrusion detection systems. However, traditional intrusion detection systems are far from being able to quickly and accurately identify complex and diverse network attacks and obtained low accuracy and detection rates, thus, these methods frequently fail to manage big amounts of data in a vast network infrastructure and utilize a lot of features leads to poor performance. For addressing these issues and improving the accuracy and scalability, in this paper, we have implemented the deep learning method based on a new approach multilayer long short-term memory (LSTM) model for detecting attacks on a network. The novelty of the proposed scheme is that the optimum multilayer architecture is built to achieve maximum accuracy in the network architecture in order to boost performance using stacking multiple layers of LSTM cells in a more effective manner, and better stability to perform consistently in both binary classification and multiclass classification on NSL-KDD datasets. Experimental tests with KDDTest + datasets show that the proposed multilayer LSTM model provides outstanding results with 95% and 96% accuracy, respectively, in binary and multiclass classification. In order to deal with actual datasets and obtain good performance in the network design, our optimum multilayer architecture must be put into practice in order to execute real-time applications. Therefore, the results are better and more robust than the existing state-of-the-art methods.