AI-powered Network Security: Approaches and Research Directions

Networks are today a critical infrastructure. Their resilience against attacks is thus crucial. Protecting networks requires a comprehensive security life-cycle and the deployment of different protection techniques. To make defenses more effective, recent solutions leverage AI techniques. In this paper, we discuss AI-based protection techniques, according to a security life-cycle consisting of several phases: (i) Prepare; (ii) Monitor and Diagnose; and (iii) React, Recovery and Fix. For each phase, we discuss relevant AI techniques, initial approaches, and research directions.