Research Article
Is This IoT Device Likely to Be Secure? Risk Score Prediction for IoT Devices Using Gradient Boosting Machines
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_7, author={Carlos A. Rivera A. and Arash Shaghaghi and David D. Nguyen and Salil S. Kanhere}, title={Is This IoT Device Likely to Be Secure? Risk Score Prediction for IoT Devices Using Gradient Boosting Machines}, proceedings={Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services. 18th EAI International Conference, MobiQuitous 2021, Virtual Event, November 8-11, 2021, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={MOBIQUITOUS}, year={2022}, month={2}, keywords={IoT Security Risk Prediction National Vulnerability Database (NVD) CVE IoT security Machine learning}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_7} }- Carlos A. Rivera A.
Arash Shaghaghi
David D. Nguyen
Salil S. Kanhere
Year: 2022
Is This IoT Device Likely to Be Secure? Risk Score Prediction for IoT Devices Using Gradient Boosting Machines
MOBIQUITOUS
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-94822-1_7
Abstract
Security risk assessment and prediction are critical for organisations deploying Internet of Things (IoT) devices. An absolute minimum requirement for enterprises is to verify the security risk of IoT devices for the reported vulnerabilities in the National Vulnerability Database (NVD). This paper proposes a novel risk prediction for IoT devices based on publicly available information about them. Our solution provides an easy and cost-efficient solution for enterprises of all sizes to predict the security risk of deploying new IoT devices. After an extensive analysis of the NVD records over the past eight years, we have created a unique, systematic, and balanced dataset for vulnerable IoT devices, including key technical features complemented with functional and descriptive features available from public resources. We then use machine learning classification models such as Gradient Boosting Decision Trees (GBDT) over this dataset and achieve 71% prediction accuracy in classifying the severity of device vulnerability score.
