Unsupervised Anomaly Detection for Unseen Cyberattacks in IoT Networks

📋 Type Project
⚡ Status running
📅 Duration Aug 1, 2026 – Oct 31, 2026
👤 Primary supervisor Julian Oelhaf
🎓 Student Mostafa Shehata Artificial Intelligence M.Sc.

Abstract

This project evaluates unsupervised machine learning methods for detecting previously unseen cyberattacks in IoT network traffic. Using the CICIoT2023 dataset, Isolation Forest, Local Outlier Factor, and One-Class SVM are compared under proxy zero-day scenarios, focusing on detection performance, false-positive rates, and computational efficiency.