Along with the proliferation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Internet of
Things (IoT) techniques, various kinds of adversarial attacks are increasingly
emerging to fool Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) used by Industrial IoT (IIoT)
applications. Due to biased training data or vulnerable underlying models,
imperceptible modifications on inputs made by adversarial attacks may result in
devastating consequences. Although existing methods are promising in defending
such malicious attacks, most of them can only deal with limited existing attack
types, which makes the deployment of large-scale IIoT devices a great
challenge. To address this problem, we present an effective federated defense
approach named FDA3 that can aggregate defense knowledge against adversarial
examples from different sources. Inspired by federated learning, our proposed
cloud-based architecture enables the sharing of defense capabilities against
different attacks among IIoT devices. Comprehensive experimental results show
that the generated DNNs by our approach can not only resist more malicious
attacks than existing attack-specific adversarial training methods, but also
can prevent IIoT applications from new attacks.