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Smart homes, enterprises, and cities equipped with IoT devices are increasingly becoming target of an escalating number of sophisticated new cyber-attacks. Anomaly-based detection methods are promising in finding new attacks, but there are certain practical challenges like false-positive alarms, hard to explain, and difficult to scale cost-effectively. The IETF recent standard called Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) seems promising to limit the attack surface on IoT devices by formally specifying their intended network behavior (whitelisting). In this paper, we use SDN to enforce and monitor the expected behaviors (compliant with MUD profile) of each IoT device, and train one-class classifier models to detect volumetric attacks such as DoS, reflective TCP/UDP/ICMP flooding, and ARP spoofing on IoT devices.Our first contribution develops a multi-level inferencing model to dynamically detect anomalous patterns in network activity of MUDcompliant traffic flows via SDN telemetry, followed by packet inspection of anomalous flows. This provides enhanced fine-grained visibility into distributed and direct attacks, allowing us to precisely isolate volumetric attacks with microflow (5-tuple) resolution. For our second contribution, we collect traffic traces (benign and a variety of volumetric attacks) from network behavior of IoT devices in our lab, generate labeled datasets, and make them available to the public. Our third contribution prototypes a full working system (modules are released as open-source), demonstrates its efficacy in detecting volumetric attacks on several consumer IoT devices with high accuracy while maintaining low false positives, and provides insights into cost and performance of our system. Our last contribution demonstrates how our models scale in environments with a large number of connected IoTs (with datasets collected from a network of IP cameras in our university campus) by considering various training strategies (per device unit versus per device type), and balancing the accuracy of prediction against the cost of models in terms of size and training time.

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