Federated Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks for Intrusion Detection Systems

Recently, there has been a growing focus on network traffic threats due to the proliferation of mobile devices and the expanding Internet of Things (IoT). The centralised anomaly detection approach implies sharing the user’s data with a cloud server, which mostly exposes the user to the data breach issue. Given the above issues, this paper proposes a federated learning intrusion detection system (FedIDS) to improve the performance of intrusion detection while protecting user privacy. Motivated by recent exploits into deep learning for intrusion detection, we propose a convolutional neural network (CNN) model to learn and train the record data collected from independent and non-independent identically distributed (Non-IID, IID)data. This work conducts experiments on the NSL-KDD Data set for network intrusion detection. Experimental results show that FedIDS has achieved a competitive advantage over state-of-the-art centralised machine learning methods.