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Reference Architecture of an Autonomous Agent for Cyber Defense of Complex Military Systems

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Adaptive Autonomous Secure Cyber Systems

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Military strategies will shortly make intensive use of autonomous systems while the Internet of Battle Things (IoBT) will grow military systems’ complexity to new heights. The cyber defense of the battlespace will then become arduous for humans, if not impossible, due to disconnections, the difficulty of supervising masses of interconnected devices, and the scarcity of cyber defense competences on the battleground. An autonomous intelligent cyber defense of the battlefield becomes necessary in such a context. In response to such needs, this chapter presents and illustrates the rationale, concept and future research directions of (Multiple) Autonomous Intelligent Cyber defense Agents, (M)AICA, and NATO’s initial AICA Reference Architecture, AICARA.

This chapter reuses portions of an earlier paper: Theron, P., et al, “Towards an Active, Autonomous and Intelligent Cyber Defense of Military Systems: the NATO AICA Reference Architecture”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Military Communications and Information Systems Warsaw, Poland, 22nd - 23rd May 2018; © 2018 IEEE.

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  1. Aerospace Cyber Resilience Chair, Paris, France

    Paul Theron

  2. U.S. Army Research Laboratory, Adelphi, MD, USA

    Alexander Kott

  3. Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

    Martin Drašar

  4. University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland

    Krzysztof Rzadca

  5. Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Cognitique, Bordeaux, France

    Benoît LeBlanc

  6. NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Tallinn, Estonia

    Mauno Pihelgas

  7. Sapienza University, Rome, Italy

    Luigi Mancini & Fabio de Gaspari

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Theron, P. et al. (2020). Reference Architecture of an Autonomous Agent for Cyber Defense of Complex Military Systems. In: Jajodia, S., Cybenko, G., Subrahmanian, V., Swarup, V., Wang, C., Wellman, M. (eds) Adaptive Autonomous Secure Cyber Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33432-1_1

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