Intelligent intrusion detection framework for multi-clouds – IoT environment using swarm-based deep learning classifier

Abstract In the current era, a tremendous volume of data has been generated by using web technologies. The association between different devices and services have also been explored to wisely and widely use recent technologies. Due to the restriction in the available resources, the chance of security violation is increasing highly on the constrained devices. IoT backend with the multi-cloud infrastructure to extend the public services in terms of better scalability and reliability. Several users might access the multi-cloud resources that lead to data threats while handling user requests for IoT services. It poses a new challenge in proposing new functional elements and security schemes. This paper introduces an intelligent Intrusion Detection Framework (IDF) to detect network and application-based attacks. The proposed framework has three phases: data pre-processing, feature selection and classification. Initially, the collected datasets are pre-processed using Integer- Grading Normalization (I-GN) technique that ensures a fair-scaled data transformation process. Secondly, Opposition-based Learning- Rat Inspired Optimizer (OBL-RIO) is designed for the feature selection phase. The progressive nature of rats chooses the significant features. The fittest value ensures the stability of the features from OBL-RIO. Finally, a 2D-Array-based Convolutional Neural Network (2D-ACNN) is proposed as the binary class classifier. The input features are preserved in a 2D-array model to perform on the complex layers. It detects normal (or) abnormal traffic. The proposed framework is trained and tested on the Netflow-based datasets. The proposed framework yields 95.20% accuracy, 2.5% false positive rate and 97.24% detection rate.