Enhancing Cybersecurity Attack Detection Using Multiplayer Battle Game Optimizer with Hybridization of Deep Learning Models

Cybersecurity is advancing and the rate of cybercrime, which is always rising. Advanced attacks are measured as the novel normal as they are one of the more normal and extensive. Cybersecurity threats have risen promptly in many areas like healthcare, smart homes, energy, automation, agriculture, and industrial processes. An intrusion detection system (IDS) discovers intrusions by analyzing attack designs or mining signatures from system packets. To assess an IDS model, use Machine Learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) approaches for recognizing data traffic into malicious and healthy. ML and DL techniques has earned an extensive interest on countless applications and domains of study, mostly in Cybersecurity. With computing power and hardware becoming more available, ML and DL systems can be employed in order to classify and analyze corrupt actors from a massive group of accessible data. This manuscript presents an Enhancing Detection of Cybersecurity Attack Using Multiplayer Battle Game Optimizer with Hybrid Deep Learning (EDCA-MBGOHDL) technique. The main intention of the EDCA-MBGOHDL technique is to provide a robust framework for cyberattack detection using deep learning integrated with a hyperparameter tuning approach. At first, the feature selection process is implemented by applying improved Harris hawk optimization (IHHO) algorithm for ensuring that only the most relevant features are fed into the model. Furthermore, the hybrid of convolutional neural network, bidirectional long short-term memory and attention mechanism (CNN-BiLSTM-AM) model is employed for the classification of cybersecurity threats. Eventually, the multiplayer battle game optimizer (MBGO) algorithm adjusts the hyperparameter values of the CNN-BiLSTM-AM classifier optimally and outcomes in greater classification performance. The wide range of analysis of the EDCA-MBGOHDL technique takes place using a benchmark dataset. The outcomes pointed out the superior performance of the EDCA-MBGOHDL system across existing models