Advancing Industrial Cybersecurity: Machine Learning-Based Detection and Mitigation of IIoT Attacks

A threatening entry or exploitation of vulnerabilities within an industrial network or system connected to IoT devices is an IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) attack. Due to manufacturing delays, broken equipment, lost confidential data, and fines from the government, cyberattacks on IIoT systems can cause significant financial losses. Rapid reaction and recovery are made possible by efficient detection systems, which can lessen these losses. Many researchers have applied machine learning (ML) approaches to predict IIoT attacks in advance. Industrial networks can be highly effectively and dynamically protected against various cyber threats by utilizing MLthrough IIoT attack distinguishing. This ML methodology is a vital component of today's cybersecurity toolkit for IIoT contexts owing to its capacity for handling massive info, adjusting for novel threats, & delivering insights in real-time. Industrial networks can be highly effectively and dynamically protected against cyber threats by utilizing ML to IIoT attack identification. ML is a vital component of today's cybersecurity toolkit for IIoT contexts for its capacity to handle massive quantities of info, adjust to emerging risks, &deliver insights in real time. IIoT data can contain noise, missing values, or irrelevant information, negatively affecting model performance. Identifying and extracting relevant features from IIoT data was highly complex and time-consuming. The methodology's effectiveness is heavily related to features with high quality utilized. This paper discusses the various techniques, their limitations, and the gaps studied during the literature survey. Among the machine learning approaches, the model should adapt to the new infrastructure attacks, which is effectively possible only through meta-heuristic learning algorithms.