Boosting Cyberattack Detection Using Binary Metaheuristics with Deep Learning on Cyber-Physical System Environment

The swift advancement of cyber-physical systems (CPSs) across sectors such as healthcare, transportation, critical infrastructure, and energy enhances the crucial requirement for robust cybersecurity measures to protect these systems from cyberattacks. The cyber-physical method is a hybrid of cyber and physical components, and a safety breach in the element is central to catastrophic consequences. Cyberattack recognition and mitigation techniques in CPSs include using numerous models like intrusion detection systems (IDSs), access control mechanisms, encryption, and firewalls. Cyberattack detection employing deep learning (DL) contains training neural networks to identify patterns indicative of malicious actions within system logs or network traffic, allowing positive classification and mitigation of cyber-attacks. By leveraging the integral ability of DL methods to learn complex representations, this technique enhances the accuracy and efficiency of detecting diverse and growing cyber-attacks. Thus, the study proposes an automated Cyberattack Detection using Binary Metaheuristics with Deep Learning (ACAD-BMDL) method in a CPS environment. The ACAD-BMDL method mainly focuses on enhancing security in the CPS environment via the cyberattack detection process. The ACAD-BMDL method uses Z-score normalization to scale the input dataset. In addition, the binary grey wolf optimizer (BGWO) model is utilized to choose an optimal feature subset. Moreover, the Enhanced Elman Spike Neural Network (EESNN) model detects cyber-attacks. Furthermore, the Archimedes Optimization Algorithm (AOA) model is employed to select the optimum hyperparameter for the EESNN model. The empirical analysis of the ACAD-BMDL technique is performed on a benchmark dataset. The experimental validation of the ACAD-BMDL technique portrayed a superior accuracy value of 99.12% and 99.36% under NSLKDD2015 and CICIDS2017 datasets in the CPS environment.