Abstract
The network intrusion detection system (NIDs) is a significant research milestone in information security. NIDs can scan and analyze the network to detect an attack or anomaly, which may be a continuing intrusion or perhaps an intrusion that has just occurred. During the pandemic, cybercriminals realized that home networks lurked with vulnerabilities due to a lack of security and computational limitations. A fundamental difficulty in NIDs is providing an effective, robust, lightweight, and rapid framework to perform real-time intrusion detection. This research proposes an efficient, functional cybersecurity approach based on machine/deep learning algorithms to detect anomalies using lightweight network-based IDs. A lightweight, real-time, network-based anomaly detection system can be used to secure connected IoT devices. The UNSW-NB15 dataset is used to evaluate the proposed approach DeepNet and compare results alongside other state-of-the-art existing techniques. For the classification of network-based anomalies, the proposed model achieves 99.16% accuracy by using all features and 99.14% accuracy after feature reduction. The experimental results show that the network anomalies depend exceptionally on features selected after selection.