Detection of Various Security Threats in IoT and Cloud Computing using Machine Learning

Due to the growth of internet technology, there is a sharp rise in the growth of IoT enabled devices. IoT (Internet of Things) refers to the connection of various embedded devices with limited processing and memory. With the heavy adoption of IoT applications, cloud computing is gaining traction with the ever-increasing demand to process and compute a massive amount of data coming from various devices. Hence, cloud computing and IoT are often related to each other. However, there are two challenges in deploying the IoT and cloud computing frameworks: security and Privacy. This article discusses various types of security threats affecting IoT and cloud computing, and threats are classified using machine learning (ML). ML has gained much momentum in recent years and is applied in various domains. One of the main subdomains of machine learning is used in IoT and cloud security. A machine learning model can be trained with data based on which the model can predict the impending security threats. Popular security techniques to protect IoT devices from hackers are IoT authentication, access control, malware detection, and secure overloading. Supervised learning algorithms can be used to detect malware in the runtime behavior of applications. The malware is detected from network traffic and is labeled based on its suspicious behavior. Post identification of malware, the application data is stored in a database trained via an ML classifier algorithm (KNN or Random Forest). With increased training, the model can identify malware applications with higher accuracy.