IST-152 2017
Intelligent Autonomous Agents for Cyber Defence and Resilience

Table of Contents

• Preface
  
  

Session 1: Environments of and requirements for Autonomous Cyber Defense Agent (ACDA): complexity of the environments and situations in which ACDA must operate; requirements for ACDA's capabilities.

• Perspectives on Autonomous Intelligent Multi Agent Systems for the Cyber Defense of Military Systems. A case study. 1-14
  Paul Theron
• Cyber Autonomy: Understanding and Mitigating the Risk of a Critical Operational Capability 15-18
  Misty Blowers
• The Internet of Things (IoT): Computational Modeling in Congested and Contested Environments 19-24
  Nandi O. Leslie , Anthony Martone , Michael Weisman
• Federated Cybersecurity Policy Arbitration 25-27
  Gregory Wehner , James Rowell , Joseph Langley , Joseph Mathews

Session 2: Analysis and characterization of ACDA properties: how should we specify, predict, and assess the properties, traits, limitations, vulnerabilities and effectiveness of ACDA.

• Cyber security: Risk versus Resilience 28-29
  Igor Linkov , Alexander Ganin , Benjamin D. Trump , Kelsey Poinsatte-Jones
• Learning, Simulating, and Predicting Adversary Attack Behaviors for Proactive Cyber Defense 30-34
  Shanchieh Jay Yang , Aunshul Rege , Michael E. Kuhl
• Adversarial Deep Learning Against Intrusion Detection Classifiers 35-48
  Maria Rigaki , Ahmed Elragal
• Internal Architecture for Software Autonomous Intelligent Agents 49-50
  Alessandro Guarino

Session 3: Understanding and characterizing the adversary: approaches to observing and learning about the adversary, their methods, properties, and limitations.

• Combining Game Theory and Learning for Dynamic Network Defense Strategies 51-53
  Branislav Bošanský , Christopher Kiekintveld
• Industrial Control System: Comprehensive Security Approach 54-78
  Agostino Panico , Lucio Cerullo , Vito Delaurentis , Giuseppina Murino , Francesco Vestito
• Adaptive Autonomous Agent Responses to Targeted Malware Attacks 79-83
  Steven Noel , Arun Lakhotia
• Estimating Parameters of Target's Detection Methods 84-89
  Martin Drašar , Jana Medková

Session 4: Methods and techniques used by ACDA in order to defeat the adversary, especially agility, moving target defense, camouflage and deception.

• Moving Target Defenses as a Resilience Strategy 90-99
  Nathaniel Evans , Michael Thompson
• Distributed Attenuation Agents for Mitigation of DDoS Attack 100-102
  Hugh Harney , Kevin Andrea , Robert Simon
• Deception and Decoy Autonomous Agent 103-106
  Don Woodard
• Enhancing Cyber Defense with Autonomous Agents Managing Dynamic Cyber Deception 107-112
  Cho-Yu Jason Chiang , Alex Poylisher , Ritu Chadha , Hasan Cam