Privacy Enhancement in Internet of Things (IoT) via mRMR for prevention and avoidance of data leakage

In today's world, data leakage on computer systems, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, or mobile devices carriages a significant threat due to weaker encryption or communication techniques, resulting in the loss of data items. Identifying the leakage of sensitive data during data transmission requires an appropriate technique. In the IoT environment, default permissions granted to devices often lead to data leakage. This proposed method offers data leakage security based on data sensitivity. However, classifying sensitive data is challenging due to its large volume and data transformation. The proposed technique utilizes the minimum redundancy and maximum relevancy (mRMR) technique for feature selection. It accurately detects confidential data better than existing state-of-the-art methods and can identify rephrased confidential contents using filter-based features for sequential data leak deterrence. Specifically, data leakage measurement can be achieved using DBSCAN (Density-based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise) to average F-statistical values measured over individual time steps and to ensure continuity between leakage data points.