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These issues limit their practical deployment in real-world applications. In this study, CiNeT is introduced as a novel DL-based IDS employing Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) within a bijective encoding\u2013decoding framework between network traffic features (such as IPv6, IPv4, Timestamp, MAC addresses, and network data) and their RGB representations. This transformation facilitates our DL IDS in detecting spatial patterns without sacrificing fidelity. The bijective pipeline enables complete traceability from detection decisions to their corresponding network traffic features, enabling a significant initiative towards solving the \u2018black-box\u2019 problem inherent in Deep Learning models, thus facilitating digital forensics. Finally, the DL IDS has been evaluated on three datasets, UNSW NB-15, InSDN, and ToN_IoT, with analysis conducted on accuracy, GPU usage, memory utilisation, training, testing, and validation time. 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