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ABOUT THE BOOK

This book offers a structured overview and a comprehensive guide to the emerging field of Autonomous Intelligent Cyber Defense Agents (AICA). The book discusses the current technical issues in autonomous cyber defense and offers information on practical design approaches. The material is presented in a way that is accessible to non-specialists, with tutorial information provided in the initial chapters and as needed throughout the book. The reader is provided with clear and comprehensive background and reference material for each aspect of AICA.

Today’s cyber defense tools are mostly watchers. They are not active doers. They do little to plan and execute responses to attacks, and they don’t plan and execute recovery activities. Response and recovery – core elements of cyber resilience – are left to human cyber analysts, incident responders and system administrators. This is about to change. The authors advocate this vision, provide detailed guide to how such a vision can be realized in practice, and its current state of the art.

This book also covers key topics relevant to the field, including functional requirements and alternative architectures of AICA, how it perceives and understands threats and the overall situation, how it plans and executes response and recovery, how it survives threats, and how human operators deploy and control AICA. Additionally, this book covers issues of testing, risk, and policy pertinent to AICA, and provides a roadmap towards future R&D in this field.

This book targets researchers and advanced students in the field of cyber defense and resilience. Professionals working in this field as well as developers of practical products for cyber autonomy will also want to purchase this book.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent: Introduction and Overview

   • Alexander Kott

   Pages 1-15

2. Alternative Architectural Approaches

   • Paul Theron

   Pages 17-46

3. Perception of the Environment

   • Martin Drasar

   Pages 47-61

4. Perception of Cyber Threats

   • Kevin Kornegay, Kofi Nyarko, Jeffrey S. Chavis, Ahmad Ridley

   Pages 63-81

5. Situational Understanding and Diagnostics

   • Steven Noel, Vipin Swarup

   Pages 83-104

6. Learning About the Adversary

   • Azqa Nadeem, Sicco Verwer, Shanchieh Jay Yang

   Pages 105-132

7. Response Planning

   • Scott Musman, Lashon Booker

   Pages 133-158

8. Recovery Planning

   • Meiyi Ma, Himanshu Neema, Janos Sztipanovits

   Pages 159-182

9. Strategic Cyber Camouflage

   • Christopher Kiekintveld, Aron Laszka, Mohammad Sujan Miah, Shanto Roy, Nazia Sharmin

   Pages 183-201

10. Adaptivity and Antifragility

    • Anton V. Uzunov, Bao Vo, Hoa Khanh Dam, Charles Harold, Mohan Baruwal Chhetri, Alan Colman et al.

    Pages 203-228

11. Collaboration and Negotiation

    • Samrat Chatterjee, Arnab Bhattacharya, Ashutosh Dutta, Aowabin Rahman, Thiagarajan Ramachandran, Satish Chikkagoudar et al.

    Pages 229-251

12. Human Interactions

    • Eric Holder, Jessie Y. C. Chen, Kristen Liggett, Phillip Bridgham, Neil Briscombe, Thomas Eskridge et al.

    Pages 253-274

13. Testing and Measurements

    • Toby J. Richer, Maxwell Standen

    Pages 275-293

14. Deployment and Operation

    • Benjamin Blakely, William Horsthemke, Daniel Harkness, Nate Evans

    Pages 295-310

15. Command in AICA-Intensive Operations

    • Arne Norlander

    Pages 311-339

16. Risk Management

    • Alexandre K. Ligo, Alexander Kott, Haley Dozier, Igor Linkov

    Pages 341-352

17. Policy Issues

    • Samuel Sanders Visner

    Pages 353-366

18. AICA Development Challenges

    • Shouhuai Xu

    Pages 367-394

19. Case Study A: A Prototype Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-Defense Agent

    • Benjamin Blakely, William Horsthemke, Nate Evans, Daniel Harkness

    Pages 395-408