A Survey of Deep Learning Methods for Cyber Security

Abstract

This survey paper describes a literature review of deep learning (DL) methods for cyber security applications. A short tutorial-style description of each DL method is provided, including deep autoencoders, restricted Boltzmann machines, recurrent neural networks, generative adversarial networks, and several others. Then we discuss how each of the DL methods is used for security applications. We cover a broad array of attack types including malware, spam, insider threats, network intrusions, false data injection, and malicious domain names used by botnets.

Keywords

• cyber analytics
• deep learning
• deep neural networks
• deep autoencoders
• deep belief networks
• restricted Boltzmann machines
• convolutional neural networks