The MENTORED project main goal consists of advancing scientific knowledge, human resources training, and enhancement of a group with international coverage to cooperate in research and innovation in systems and network security with the participation of academic institutions, a small company, and the government. Besides that, this project aims to identify, model, and evaluate malicious behavior associated with the Internet of Things (IoT) to help build advanced solutions to the prevention, prediction, detection, and mitigation of DDoS attacks.