Doers, Not Watchers: Intelligent Autonomous Agents Are a Path to Cyber Resilience

Kott, Alexander; Théron, Paul

doi:10.1109/msec.2020.2983714

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“…The evolution of embedded security platform architecture has been guided by technological advancements and a cause and effect of developing application requirements and design challenges [3], [12], [13], [15]. This includes the realisation of mix-critical applications, broader network connectivity, a need for code/data protection, isolation and segregation of resources leading to wider availability of embedded multiprocessing [6], [7], [9].…”

Section: Evolution Of Embedded Platform Securitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is evident that the vast majority of software security methods are not able to circumvent the explosion of security vulnerabilities and attacks launched by malicious actors. Because, they are often ad-hoc and passive, designed to mitigate a certain class of known attacks [2], [3], [4]. As they are not targeted to fix the root-causes of the underlying platform security architecture, rather focused circumvent the vulnerability itself or poor use of secure-design practices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The reliance on intelligent computing technologies has grown opportunities for adversaries to conduct malicious activities, steal valuable data, launch attacks and compromise public and private digital services [1], [2], [3], [4]. The international government agencies have released cybersecurity regulations [5] to manage such challenges by advocating businesses and technology manufacturers to comply and adhere to these regulations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This need for compliance has triggered a chain reaction among service providers, original equipment manufacturers and embedded platform manufacturers and posed them to design, develop and integrate platform defence mechanisms [4], [6], [7]. These defence mechanisms can facilitate designing detect, respond and recover functions in case of malicious activity, software malfunction or adversarial attack [3], [4], [8], [9]. Since such incidents cause severe damage to the business reputation and safety of their users, the need for strong and robust platform security has become an obligatory design and operational security requirement for nextgeneration intelligent embedded technologies [3], [2], [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These defence mechanisms can facilitate designing detect, respond and recover functions in case of malicious activity, software malfunction or adversarial attack [3], [4], [8], [9]. Since such incidents cause severe damage to the business reputation and safety of their users, the need for strong and robust platform security has become an obligatory design and operational security requirement for nextgeneration intelligent embedded technologies [3], [2], [10].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Evolution of Embedded Platform Security Technologies: Past, Present & Future Challenges

Siddiqui

Sezer

2020

2020 IEEE 33rd International System-on-Chip Conference (SOCC)

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In recent years, the proliferation of intelligent embedded technologies is opening venues to new service and computing models, providing diverse socio-economic benefits. These intelligent technologies are giving rise to a wide range of public and private applications by sharing and analysing generated data. This includes smart home, smart health, smart city, autonomous vehicles, smart grid and smart manufacturing etc. However, where this sharing of data brings benefits and opportunities, it simultaneously presents security risks and challenges. The realisation and prototyping of such technologies require a computing hardware widely available in the form of an embedded platform. The security perimeter and the attack surface of these platforms rely on their supported security and defence mechanisms. This paper aims to build a body-of-knowledge in this area for the security research community. It present the state-of-theart security frameworks and architectures, discuss architectural shortcomings and root-causes of leading security technologies rather than discussing vulnerabilities and attacks. The paper concludes advocating secure-by-design platform approach and classifying platform security methods to realise robust embedded platform security architecture.

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Using functional decomposition to bridge the design gap between desired emergent multi‐agent‐system resilience and individual agent design

Hernandez,

Watson,

Weissburg

et al. 2024

Systems Engineering

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Increasing the resilience of modern infrastructure systems is recognized as a priority by both the International Council on Systems Engineering and the National Academy of Engineering. Resilience answers the key stakeholder need for a stable and predictable system by withstanding, adapting to, and recovering from unexpected faults. Increasing resilience in multi‐agent systems is especially challenging because resilience is an emergent system‐level property rather than the sum of individual agent functions. This paper uses biological systems as a source of inspiration for resilient functions, examining the central question How can biologically inspired design be used to increase the emergent property of resilience in multi‐agent systems? The paper uses functional decomposition to break down the individual functions that result in resilience and transfer the properties to generalized systems. Accordingly, the central hypothesis examined in this article is If functional decomposition is performed on eusocial insect colonies, then generalizable approaches to increase the emergent property of multi‐agent system resilience can be identified. The results provide two contributions. The first contribution is the identification of six general functions based on eusocial insect behavior that influence resilience. The second contribution is a description of the process of identifying and transferring insect behaviors into generalized design‐for‐resilience guidance. To support these contributions, a case study applies biologically inspired functions to an emergency power service system and proposes tactics for the power system to improve its resilience. Thus, this article provides a key step towards our goal of using biologically inspired design to influence the emergent property of resilience in multi‐agent systems.

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Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent: Introduction and Overview

Kott

2023

Advances in Information Security

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Doers, Not Watchers: Intelligent Autonomous Agents Are a Path to Cyber Resilience

Cited by 30 publications

References 8 publications

Evolution of Embedded Platform Security Technologies: Past, Present & Future Challenges

Evolution of Embedded Platform Security Technologies: Past, Present & Future Challenges

Using functional decomposition to bridge the design gap between desired emergent multi‐agent‐system resilience and individual agent design

Autonomous Intelligent Cyber-defense Agent: Introduction and Overview

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