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Final Report of the IST 152 Group on Intelligent, Autonomous, and Trusted Agents for Cyber Defense and Resilience.

AD1120862

Publication Date	2021
Personal Author	Kott, A.
Page Count	26
Abstract	This document reports on the activities and outcomes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group IST-152, which was formed in 2016 and completed its work in 2020. Its topic of research was the concept of Intelligent, Autonomous, and Trusted Agents for Cyber Defense and Resilience. Twenty-one members representing 11 NATO nations actively contributed to the work of IST-152. The IST-152 Group developed a concept and a reference architecture for intelligent software agents performing active, largely autonomous cyber-defense actions on military assets. The Group published a reference architecture report 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. Todays reliance on human cyber defenders will be untenable. 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. In addition, the IST-152 created an Integrated Working Group for Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agents.
Keywords	Cyber defense techniques Cybersecurity Cyberattacks Intelligent agents Cyber deception Computer security techniques Autonomous agents Battlefields Multiagent systems Resilience Agent architecture
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category	62D - Information Processing Standards
Corporate Authors	DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Technical Report,01 Sep 2016,31 Jul 2020
NTIS Issue Number	202110

Final Report of the IST 152 Group on Intelligent, Autonomous, and Trusted Agents for Cyber Defense and Resilience.

Final Report of the IST 152 Group on Intelligent, Autonomous, and Trusted Agents for Cyber Defense and Resilience.
AD1120862

Publication Date	2021
Personal Author	Kott, A.
Page Count	26
Abstract	This document reports on the activities and outcomes of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Research Task Group IST-152, which was formed in 2016 and completed its work in 2020. Its topic of research was the concept of Intelligent, Autonomous, and Trusted Agents for Cyber Defense and Resilience. Twenty-one members representing 11 NATO nations actively contributed to the work of IST-152. The IST-152 Group developed a concept and a reference architecture for intelligent software agents performing active, largely autonomous cyber-defense actions on military assets. The Group published a reference architecture report 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. Todays reliance on human cyber defenders will be untenable. 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. In addition, the IST-152 created an Integrated Working Group for Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agents.
Keywords	Cyber defense techniques Cybersecurity Cyberattacks Intelligent agents Cyber deception Computer security techniques Autonomous agents Battlefields Multiagent systems Resilience Agent architecture
Source Agency	Non Paid ADAS
NTIS Subject Category	62D - Information Processing Standards
Corporate Authors	DEVCOM Army Research Laboratory Adelphi United States
Document Type	Technical Report
Title Note	Technical Report,01 Sep 2016,31 Jul 2020
NTIS Issue Number	202110