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2024
The Road Towards Autonomous Cybersecurity Agents: Remedies for Simulation Environments
DRAŠAR, Martin; Ádám RUMAN; Pavel ČELEDA and Shanchieh Jay YANG
Basic information
Original name
The Road Towards Autonomous Cybersecurity Agents: Remedies for Simulation Environments
Authors
DRAŠAR, Martin; Ádám RUMAN; Pavel ČELEDA and Shanchieh Jay YANG
Edition
BERLIN, COMPUTER SECURITY. ESORICS 2023 INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOPS, CPS4CIP, PT II, p. 738-749, 12 pp. 2024
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Other information
Type of outcome
Proceedings paper
Country of publisher
Germany
Confidentiality degree
is not subject to a state or trade secret
Publication form
electronic version available online
Marked to be transferred to RIV
No
Organization
Fakulta informatiky – Repository – Repository
Keywords in English
simulation environments; autonomous decision-making; cybersecurity
Links
MUNI/A/1389/2022, interní kód Repo. VJ02010020, research and development project.
In the original language
One of the fundamental challenges in developing autonomous cybersecurity agents (AICA) is providing them with appropriate training environments for skills acquisition and evaluation. Current reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms rely on myriads of training runs to instill proper behavior, and this is reasonably achievable only within a simulated environment. In this paper, we explore the topic of simulation models and environments for RL and present an assessment framework to compare simulation models designed for simulating cyberattack scenarios. We examine four existing simulation tools, including a new one by the authors of the paper, and discuss their properties, particularly in terms of deployability, to support RL-based AICA. In the example of complex scenarios, we compare the two most sophisticated simulation tools and discuss their strengths.
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