An introductory preview of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent reference architecture, release 2.0
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14610%2F20%3A00118543" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14610/20:00118543 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1548512919886163" target="_blank" >https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1548512919886163</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1548512919886163" target="_blank" >10.1177/1548512919886163</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
An introductory preview of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent reference architecture, release 2.0
Original language description
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.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10201 - Computer sciences, information science, bioinformathics (hardware development to be 2.2, social aspect to be 5.8)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/EF16_019%2F0000822" target="_blank" >EF16_019/0000822: CyberSecurity, CyberCrime and Critical Information Infrastructures Center of Excellence</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2020
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation: Applications, Methodology, Technology
ISSN
1548-5129
e-ISSN
1557-380X
Volume of the periodical
17
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
51-54
UT code for WoS article
000496078600001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85075161817