Anomaly Detection through Reinforcement Learning

As Artificial Intelligence is becoming a mainstream and easily available commercial technology, both organizations and criminals are trying to take full advantage of it. In particular, there are predictions by cyber security experts that going forward, the world will witness many AI-powered cyber attacks1. This mandates the development of more sophisticated cyber defense systems using autonomous agents which are capable of generating and executing effective policies against such attacks, without human feedback in the loop. In this series of blog posts, we plan to write about such next generation cyber defense systems. One effective approach of detecting many types of cyber threats is to treat it as an anomaly detection problem and use machine learning or signature-based approaches to build detection systems.