It is shown that data protection technologies used in wired communication networks are not available for low-power devices of the Internet of things. Therefore, the search for an attack on IoT devices can be implemented by means of analyzing the traffic that carries the attack and, as a result, is classified as anomalous. A technique for searching for an anomaly in the network traffic of the Internet of things is proposed. A sequence of steps is considered to isolate a random compo nent from the traffic generated by the IoT sensor devices, remaining after the exclusion of the main characteristics and which may contain an anomaly. The software implementation of the proposed technique can become part of the intrusion detection system for the Internet of things.