Vision paper: Human-competitive AI will disrupt the cyber security industry; prepare now!

Before AI becomes uncontrollable the cyber security industry needs to be ready to defend itself against malicious use of AI for offensive cyber activities. We call upon the cyber security industry to start preparing now for an era of malicious use of AI for offensive cyber activities, since there is a high chance we will be unable to protect our infrastructures proficiently within half a decade from now.

The big question is, will human-competitive AI enable attackers to launch attacks that are fully autonomous in the near future? In order to address this challenge, the PCSI initiated the research project PurpleAI. Within this project ABN AMRO, ING, De Volksbank, Achmea and TNO developed a Reinforcement Learning model capable of executing AI-based attacks against our own infrastructure for red-team and purple-team purposes.

Even though the PurpleAI project was a first step in the right direction, it is not enough if we are to meet the challenge ahead. So how can we best overcome this challenge? Make sure to read our vision paper to find out! You can download the vision paper here, or go to our PurpleAI project page here below.