New deep learning tools can help us win the cyber war

For as long as humans have been fighting wars, innovation has allowed the eventual winning side to gain the upper hand. From the creation of the phalanx to the guerrilla warfare tactics that won the American Revolution to the use of air superiority to control ground warfare, we have seen military operations evolve to meet the challenges of time and place. Today's wars are fought as much in cyberspace as they are on the physical field of battle – and are being waged against organizations large and small, not just between nations and their militaries. As we've seen with the recent hybrid war between Russia and the Ukraine, cyberattacks are an important tool of modern warfare. Nation-states now use less overt ways to breach their adversary's cyber defenses, disrupting military operations and critical infrastructures such as water, electricity, traffic routing, banks, and strategic institutions.