A knowledge-based approach to network security: applying Cyc in the domain of network risk assessment

  • Authors:
  • Blake Shepard;Cynthia Matuszek;C. Bruce Fraser;William Wechtenhiser;David Crabbe;Zelal Güngördü;John Jantos;Todd Hughes;Larry Lefkowitz;Michael Witbrock;Doug Lenat;Erik Larson

  • Affiliations:
  • Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX;Cycorp, Inc., Austin, TX

  • Venue:
  • IAAI'05 Proceedings of the 17th conference on Innovative applications of artificial intelligence - Volume 3
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

CycSecure™ is a network risk assessment and network monitoring application that relies on knowledge-based artificial intelligence technologies to improve on traditional network vulnerability assessment. CycSecure integrates public reports of software faults from online databases, data gathered automatically from computers on a network and hand-ontologized information about computers and computer networks. This information is stored in the Cyc® knowledge base (KB) and reasoned about by the Cyc inference engine and planner to provide detailed analyses of the security (and vulnerability) of networks.