Autonomous Penetration Testing using Reinforcement Learning

Understand

Penetration testing (pentesting) involves performing a controlled attack on a computer system in order to assess it's security.

• Although an effective method for testing security, pentesting requires highly skilled practitioners and currently there is a growing shortage of skilled cyber security professionals.
• One avenue for alleviating this problem is automate the pentesting process using artificial intelligence techniques.
• Current approaches to automated pentesting have relied on model-based planning, however the cyber security landscape is rapidly changing making maintaining up-to-date models of exploits a challenge.