Mirage: Cyber Deception Against Autonomous Cyber Attacks

...In this presentation, we will address a future cyber adversary whose actions and decisions are entirely controlled by an autonomous system (AI). This autonomous system uses automated planning algorithms and search techniques to drive its cyber-attack operations and achieve the desired objective(s). Given such a scenario, we ask: (1) can novel cyber deceptions be constructed and deployed in such a manner as to directly target weaknesses in the automated planning and search techniques; and (2) can an effective emulation system be implemented to evaluate real cyber deceptions, adversaries, and automated planning techniques at scale. To explore these questions, we present Mirage, a (fully implemented) cyber deception and autonomous cyber adversary experimentation system. By: Ron Alford , Michael Kouremetis , Dean Lawrence Full Abstract and Presentation Materials: #mirage-cyber-deception-against-autonomous-cyber-attacks-33262