Artificial Intelligence Enabled Cyberspace Security Defense

Abstract

Cyberspace is regarded as the fifth largest activity space following land, sea, air, and space. Protecting cyberspace security is a major issue related to national security, national sovereignty, and the legitimate rights and interests of the people. With the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) technology and its application in various fields, cyberspace security has been facing new challenges. This study analyzes the new risks of cyberspace security in the era of AI, such as more intelligent network attacks, more frequent large-scale network attacks, higher concealment of network attacks, stronger confrontation game of network attacks, and easier exposure to stealing of important data. AI technology has significant advantages in dealing with massive data, multi-source heterogeneous data, and real-time dynamic data, which can significantly improve the defense capability of cyberspace. This study introduces some key problems and technologies of AI-enabled cyberspace security defense, particularly the construction of a cyberspace security knowledge brain and the detection of network attacks. Furthermore, we propose the corresponding countermeasures and suggestions from three aspects: the construction of a dynamic and scalable network security knowledge brain, the promotion of intelligent detection against network attacks, and the evaluation of AI technologies’ security.

Keywords

• artificial intelligence (AI)，cyberspace security，cyber attacks，cyber defense