In order to improve the performance of industrial Internet of Things ARP virus attack detection methods, this paper proposes an improved CNN BiLSTM based industrial Internet of Things ARP virus attack detection method. Firstly, analyze the data flow of normal data, construct an industrial Internet of Things ARP virus intrusion dataset, and obtain the sample distribution of the ETI dataset. Secondly, based on the domain knowledge of ETCN, a preliminary manual selection was performed on all extracted head features, and a feature correlation discrimination algorithm was designed to further screen the features. Then, the Pearson correlation coefficient is used to calculate its linear correlation, the distance correlation coefficient is used to calculate its nonlinear correlation, and a comprehensive calculation formula is designed based on the principle of maximum correlation and minimum redundancy to establish a comprehensive measurement coefficient. The value of the features selected in the first stage is ranked using this coefficient, and different feature subsets are constructed through sequential search. Effective features are selected based on the performance of the intrusion detection models trained on different feature subsets. Implement industrial Internet of Things (IoT) ARP feature extraction through feature extraction, data cleaning, feature transformation, and feature selection. Finally, an improved CNN BiLSTM structure is constructed by using CNN to filter out a large number of packets that are not related to the attack and have weak correlation in the data. Significant features are extracted from the data, and the feature data extracted by CNN is timestamped through timeDistribution. After flattening into one-dimensional data through the flat layer, it is used as input to the BILSTM layer. We used a bidirectional long short-term memory network (BILSTM) to train industrial IoT ARP virus attacks and output the final ARP virus attack detection results. The experimental results show that in the first 10 rounds of training, the training accuracy and validation accuracy of the model rapidly increase, indicating that the model learns a large amount of information in this stage of iteration. We achieved high F1 score (94.42%), high accuracy (94.58%), and low false alarm rate (5.33%) on the ETI dataset. The model consumed very little training time (8.0746s) and testing time (0.1664s). Verified the effectiveness of the design model. © 2024 River Publishers.