Corrective and preventive actions 

When the suspicious activity is detected by the anomaly detection component, there are two ways to respond. In the first case, the alert/notification requires manual intervention in order to trigger the corrective action. In the second case, the system itself takes some corrective action based on the context and the acceptable threshold of the error margin.

For example, if a hack into the thermostat circuitry starts increasing the temperature of the cold storage in an unanticipated manner, the system can switch the control to an alternate thermostat and ensure that the temperature is back to normal and maintained at normal levels. This component can use supervised learning as well as reinforcement learning ...

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