Towards a Systematic View on Cybersecurity Ecology
Wojciech Mazurczyk, Szymon Drobniak, Sean Moore

TL;DR
This paper advocates for a bio-inspired approach to cybersecurity, proposing a framework to systematically develop next-generation security systems inspired by biological ecosystems, addressing current limitations in threat detection.
Contribution
It introduces a biological cybersecurity ecology framework to guide systematic research and development of bio-inspired cybersecurity solutions.
Findings
Proposes a new framework for bio-inspired cybersecurity research
Highlights the limitations of current network security systems
Suggests biological concepts can improve threat detection and response
Abstract
Current network security systems are progressively showing their limitations. One credible estimate is that only about 45% of new threats are detected. Therefore it is vital to find a new direction that cybersecurity development should follow. We argue that the next generation of cybersecurity systems should seek inspiration in nature. This approach has been used before in the first generation of cybersecurity systems; however, since then cyber threats and environment have evolved significantly, and accordingly the first-generation systems have lost their effectiveness. A next generation of bio-inspired cybersecurity research is emerging, but progress is hindered by the lack of a framework for mapping biological security systems to their cyber analogies. In this paper, using terminology and concepts from biology, we describe a cybersecurity ecology and a framework that may be used to…
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TopicsScientific Computing and Data Management
