| CPC H04L 41/16 (2013.01) [H04L 43/0876 (2013.01)] | 7 Claims |

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1. An analysis device comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
obtain normal communications models from a plurality of network traffic sensors respectively corresponding to a plurality of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, a respective network traffic sensor monitoring communications of a corresponding IoT device, and a respective normal communications model (i) being used to monitor the communications of the corresponding IoT device and (ii) indicating a characteristic of normal communications of the corresponding IoT device;
identify, from the obtained normal communications models, normal communications models that share a communications feature;
cluster the identified normal communications models that share the communications feature to generate a plurality of clusters of normal communications models;
determine a majority cluster having a largest number of normal communications models using a result of the clustering;
generate an average model of the normal communications models belonging to the majority cluster; and
notify the respective network traffic sensor of (i) attribution information indicating whether the respective normal communications model belongs to the majority cluster and (ii) the average model.
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