Cybercriminals are rapidly developing new malicious tools that leverage artificial intelligence (AI) to enable new classes of adaptive and stealthy attacks. New defensive methods need to be developed to counter these threats. Some cybersecurity professionals are speculating AI will enable corresponding new classes of active cyber defence measures -- is this realistic, or currently mostly hype? The Alan Turing Institute, with expert guidance from the UK National Cyber Security Centre and Defence Science Technology Laboratory, published a research roadmap for AI for ACD last year. This position paper updates the roadmap for two of the most promising AI approaches -- reinforcement learning and causal inference - and describes why they could help tip the balance back towards defenders.
翻译:网络罪犯正在迅速开发新的恶意工具,利用人工智能(AI),以促成新的适应性和隐形袭击类别。需要开发新的防御方法来应对这些威胁。一些网络安全专业人员猜测AI将促成相应的新的积极网络防御措施类别。 这是现实的吗,还是目前大多是杂音?艾伦·图灵研究所在英国国家网络安全中心和国防科学技术实验室的专家指导下,为去年的ACD发布了AI研究路线图。本立场文件更新了两个最有希望的AI方法的路线图 — — 强化学习和因果推断 — — 并说明了他们为什么可以帮助将平衡向维权者倾斜。