{"id":158292,"date":"2023-02-16T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-17T02:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/cybersecurity-defenders-are-expanding-their-ai-toolbox"},"modified":"2023-02-16T20:26:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-17T02:26:00","slug":"cybersecurity-defenders-are-expanding-their-ai-toolbox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/cybersecurity-defenders-are-expanding-their-ai-toolbox","title":{"rendered":"Cybersecurity defenders are expanding their AI toolbox"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/cybersecurity-defenders-are-expanding-their-ai-toolbox2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have taken a key step toward harnessing a form of artificial intelligence known as deep reinforcement learning, or DRL, to protect computer networks.<\/p>\n<p>When faced with sophisticated cyberattacks in a rigorous simulation setting, <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/deep+reinforcement+learning\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">deep reinforcement learning<\/a> was effective at stopping adversaries from reaching their goals up to 95 percent of the time. The outcome offers promise for a role for autonomous AI in proactive cyber defense.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists from the Department of Energy\u2019s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory documented their findings in a research paper and presented their work Feb. 14 at a workshop on AI for Cybersecurity during the annual meeting of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have taken a key step toward harnessing a form of artificial intelligence known as deep reinforcement learning, or DRL, to protect computer networks. When faced with sophisticated cyberattacks in a rigorous simulation setting, deep reinforcement learning was effective at stopping adversaries from reaching their goals up to 95 percent of the time. The outcome [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}