How I Built Aegis-5: An Ensemble Framework That Detects 99.98% of IIoT Intrusions

Factory floors in 2026 look nothing like they did a decade ago. Robots collaborate with humans, sensors talk to cloud systems, and every machine is a node on the network. This is Industry 5.0 - and it's a massive attack surface. I spent the last year building Aegis-5, a hybrid ensemble framework for intrusion detection in these environments. The work was published in ACM Transactions on Autonomous and Adaptive Systems, and I've open-sourced the full implementation. Here's how it works and why existing approaches fall short.