Abstract
The great advancements in communication, cloud computing, and the internet of things (IoT) have opened critical challenges in security. With these developments, cyberattacks are also rapidly growing since the current security mechanisms do not provide efficient solutions. Recently, various artificial intelligence (AI) based solutions have been proposed for different security applications, including intrusion detection. In this paper, we propose an efficient AI-based mechanism for intrusion detection systems (IDS) in IoT systems. We leverage the advancements of deep learnings and metaheuristics (MH) algorithms that approved their efficiency in solving complex engineering problems. We propose a feature extraction method using the convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to extract relevant features. Also, we develop a new feature selection method using a new variant of the transient search optimization (TSO) algorithm, called TSODE, using the operators of differential evolution (DE) algorithm. The proposed TSODE uses the DE to improve the process of balancing between exploitation and exploration phases. Furthermore, we use three public datasets, KDDCup-99, NSL-KDD, BoT-IoT, and CICIDS-2017 to assess the performance of the developed method, which achieved higher accuracy compared to several existing approaches.