Initial Reference Architecture of an Intelligent Autonomous
Agent for Cyber Defense

A 2018

Initial Reference Architecture of an Intelligent Autonomous Agent for Cyber Defense

KOTT, Alexander, Paul THERÓN, Luigi V MANCINI, Martin DRAŠAR, Edlira DUSHKU et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Initial Reference Architecture of an Intelligent Autonomous Agent for Cyber Defense

Authors

KOTT, Alexander, Paul THERÓN, Luigi V MANCINI, Martin DRAŠAR, Edlira DUSHKU, Günther HEIKO, Markus KONT, Benoît LEBLANC, Agostino PANICO, Mauno PIHELGAS and Krzysztof RZADCA

Edition

2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Audiovizuální tvorba

Field of Study

10201 Computer sciences, information science, bioinformatics

Country of publisher

United States of America

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

arXiv

Organization unit

Institute of Computer Science

Keywords in English

reference architecture;autonomous agents;military systems;cyberdefence

Abstract

V originále

This report describes an initial reference architecture for intelligent software agents performing active, largely autonomous cyber defense actions on military networks of computing and communicating devices. The report is produced by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group (RTG) IST-152 "Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defense and Resilience". In a conflict with a technically sophisticated adversary, NATO military tactical networks will operate in a heavily contested battlefield. Enemy software cyber agents - malware - will infiltrate friendly networks and attack friendly command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance and computerized weapon systems. To fight them, NATO needs artificial cyber hunters - intelligent, autonomous, mobile agents specialized in active cyber defense. With this in mind, in 2016, NATO initiated RTG IST-152. Its objective is to help accelerate development and transition to practice of such software agents by producing a reference architecture and technical roadmap. This report presents the concept and architecture of an Autonomous Intelligent Cyber Defense Agent (AICA). We describe the rationale of the AICA concept, explain the methodology and purpose that drive the definition of the AICA Reference Architecture, and review some of the main features and challenges of the AICA.

Links

EF16_019/0000822, research and development project

Name: Centrum excelence pro kyberkriminalitu, kyberbezpečnost a ochranu kritických informačních infrastruktur

Citovat

KOTT, Alexander, Paul THERÓN, Luigi V MANCINI, Martin DRAŠAR, Edlira DUSHKU, Günther HEIKO, Markus KONT, Benoît LEBLANC, Agostino PANICO, Mauno PIHELGAS and Krzysztof RZADCA. Initial Reference Architecture of an Intelligent Autonomous Agent for Cyber Defense. 2018.

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   keywords = {reference architecture;autonomous agents;military systems;cyberdefence},
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   title = {Initial Reference Architecture of an Intelligent Autonomous Agent for Cyber Defense},
   url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1803.10664},
   year = {2018}
}

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