Artificial intelligence and the future of cybersecurity

  • Authors:
  • Benoit Morel

  • Affiliations:
  • Carnegie Mellon University, PITTSBURGH, PA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 4th ACM workshop on Security and artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

A position paper toward an important and urgent discussion on how best use the potential of Artificial Intelligence in the context of cybersecurity. AI is often mentioned in papers on cybersecurity. But what is meant is using pre-existing AI techniques in cybersecurity. AI techniques are developed around applications. Cybersecurity has never been an area of concentration in AI. In this paper we argue that cybersecurity calls for new and specific AI techniques developed with that kind of application in mind. In practice, this paper is based on a broad overview of different approaches, which have the potential to be game changers in cybersecurity. This paper focuses on web application security and advocates the use of Knowledge Based Systems, probabilistic reasoning and Bayesian updating to control the probability of false positives and false negatives.