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Article Dans Une Revue The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology Année : 2020

An introductory preview of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent reference architecture, release 2.0

Alexander Kott
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Edlira Dushku
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Agostino Panico
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Martin Drašar
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Paul Losiewicz
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Alessandro Guarino
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Mauno Pihelgas
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Krzysztof Rzadca
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Résumé

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group IST-152 developed a concept and a reference architecture for intelligent software agents performing active, largely autonomous cyber-defense actions on military assets. The group released a detailed report, briefly reviewed in this article, where such an agent is referred to as an Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent (AICA). In a conflict with a technically sophisticated adversary, NATO military networks will operate in a heavily contested battlefield. Enemy malware will likely infiltrate and attack friendly networks and systems. Today’s reliance on human cyber defenders will be untenable on the future battlefield. Instead, artificially intelligent agents, such as AICAs, will be necessary to defeat the enemy malware in an environment of potentially disrupted communications where human intervention may not be possible. The IST-152 group identified specific capabilities of AICA. For example, AICA will have to be capable of autonomous planning and execution of complex multi-step activities for defeating or degrading sophisticated adversary malware, with the anticipation and minimization of resulting side effects. It will have to be capable of adversarial reasoning to battle against a thinking, adaptive malware. Crucially, AICA will have to keep itself and its actions as undetectable as possible, and will have to use deceptions and camouflage. The report identifies the key functions and components and their interactions for a potential reference architecture of such an agent, as well as a tentative roadmap toward the capabilities of AICA.

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hal-02504416 , version 1 (10-03-2020)

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Alexander Kott, Paul Théron, Luigi Mancini, Edlira Dushku, Agostino Panico, et al.. An introductory preview of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent reference architecture, release 2.0. The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology, 2020, 17 (1), pp.51-54. ⟨10.1177/1548512919886163⟩. ⟨hal-02504416⟩
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