Adaptive Cyber Defense

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About the ACD Workshop

The 2nd International Workshop on Adaptive Cyber Defense is TBD. This workshop was organized to share research that explores unique applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) as foundational capabilities for the pursuit of adaptive cyber defense. The cyber domain cannot currently be reliably and effectively defended without extensive reliance on human experts. Skilled cyber defenders are in short supply and often cannot respond fast enough to cyber threats.

Building on recent advances in AI and ML the Cyber defense research community has been motivated to develop new dynamic and sustainable defenses through the adoption of AI and ML techniques to cyber settings. Bridging critical gaps between AI and Cyber researchers and practitioners can accelerate efforts to create semi-autonomous cyber defenses that can learn to recognize and respond to cyber attacks or discover and mitigate weaknesses in cooperation with other cyber operation systems and human experts. Furthermore, these defenses are expected to be adaptive and able to evolve over time to thwart changes in attacker behavior, changes in the system health and readiness, and natural shifts in user behavior over time.

The Workshop will be comprised of technical presentations and a panel discussion focused on open problems and potential research solutions. Workshop submissions will be peer reviewed by a panel of domain experts with workshop proceedings published via arXiv.

The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together both the research community and the government and industry communities to exchange experiences, discuss challenges and propose new research in adaptive and autonomous cyber defense. The workshop will consist of both technical presentations and research discussions:

• Technical presentations: invited and accepted paper speakers will share their thoughts and experience on adaptive cyber defense.

• Academic-Industry-Government research discussions: top researchers in the area from academic, industry and government will discuss the current and future challenges in this area.

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