Revenge on the Worms! Towards Deception Against Automated Adversaries

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Presented at BSidesLV 2021 by

Andy Applebaum

Ron Alford

Automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are both hugely beneficial for cyber defenders. This holds true for red teams too – AI-enabled vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and red teaming are all active applied research topics. But if we can use AI for our red teams, can our adversaries as well? In the same way we use AI for automated red teaming, we can easily imagine even low-sophistication threat actors creating stealthy, efficient, and extremely fast attacks with a simple push of a button. How should we defend against this?