Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks
Abstract Cyber-attacks have perceived explosive growth in today’s technologically driven world, significantly impacting critical sectors such as healthcare, finance, and industrial automation systems. With these vulnerabilities increasing daily, addressing them has become a major challenge for resea...
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| description | Abstract Cyber-attacks have perceived explosive growth in today’s technologically driven world, significantly impacting critical sectors such as healthcare, finance, and industrial automation systems. With these vulnerabilities increasing daily, addressing them has become a major challenge for researchers. Adding to this complexity, zero-day attacks are penetrating deeply into people’s lives and pose a significant threat to mitigation efforts. Modern Intrusion Detection Systems (MIDS), which leverage the strengths of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL), have emerged as promising solutions for detecting various types of attacks. To ensure a highly secure environment, this paper proposes an Explainable Deep Learning Framework (X-DLF) for the classification of diverse cyber-attacks. The proposed system integrates an Attention-Evoked Gated Recurrent (AEGR) and Long Short-Term Memory Network (AEGR-LSTM) to mitigate threats posed by malicious activities. The X-DLF not only detects intrusions but also provides interpretability, offering insights into the rationale behind each classification decision. Extensive experiments were conducted using a variety of benchmark datasets, and performance metrics like specificity, recall, accuracy, F1-score and precision were computed and examined with existing learning models. Furthermore, the flexibility and scalability of the proposed approach were validated using Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), which helped identify the most significant features influencing the model’s decisions. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed X-DLF was demonstrated by comparison with existing deep learning approaches, achieving superior results with 97.5% accuracy, 97.3% precision, 97.1% recall, and 97.5% F1-score. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-4e85b8ddaa1245538b73b0e014704dd42025-08-20T04:03:07ZengSpringerDiscover Computing2948-29922025-07-0128111810.1007/s10791-025-09672-5Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacksRagipani Sowmya0Bhagavan Konduri1Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering, Koneru Lakshmaiah Education FoundationAbstract Cyber-attacks have perceived explosive growth in today’s technologically driven world, significantly impacting critical sectors such as healthcare, finance, and industrial automation systems. With these vulnerabilities increasing daily, addressing them has become a major challenge for researchers. Adding to this complexity, zero-day attacks are penetrating deeply into people’s lives and pose a significant threat to mitigation efforts. Modern Intrusion Detection Systems (MIDS), which leverage the strengths of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Deep Learning (DL), have emerged as promising solutions for detecting various types of attacks. To ensure a highly secure environment, this paper proposes an Explainable Deep Learning Framework (X-DLF) for the classification of diverse cyber-attacks. The proposed system integrates an Attention-Evoked Gated Recurrent (AEGR) and Long Short-Term Memory Network (AEGR-LSTM) to mitigate threats posed by malicious activities. The X-DLF not only detects intrusions but also provides interpretability, offering insights into the rationale behind each classification decision. Extensive experiments were conducted using a variety of benchmark datasets, and performance metrics like specificity, recall, accuracy, F1-score and precision were computed and examined with existing learning models. Furthermore, the flexibility and scalability of the proposed approach were validated using Local Interpretable Model-Agnostic Explanations (LIME), which helped identify the most significant features influencing the model’s decisions. Finally, the effectiveness of the proposed X-DLF was demonstrated by comparison with existing deep learning approaches, achieving superior results with 97.5% accuracy, 97.3% precision, 97.1% recall, and 97.5% F1-score.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-025-09672-5Cyber-attacksZero-day attacksIntrusion detection systemExplainable deep learning frameworksLIME |
| spellingShingle | Ragipani Sowmya Bhagavan Konduri Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks Discover Computing Cyber-attacks Zero-day attacks Intrusion detection system Explainable deep learning frameworks LIME |
| title | Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks |
| title_full | Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks |
| title_fullStr | Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks |
| title_short | Explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large-scale real time cyber attacks |
| title_sort | explainable and cognitive attention evoked learning framework for mitigating the large scale real time cyber attacks |
| topic | Cyber-attacks Zero-day attacks Intrusion detection system Explainable deep learning frameworks LIME |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10791-025-09672-5 |
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