Ethical Problems and Legal Issues in Development and Usage Autonomous Adversaries in Cyber Domain

Abstract

An autonomous adversaries in cyber domain are new type of adversaries present in a cyber security exercise. Traditionally, adversaries in cyber security exercises are human who perform the roles of attackers and defenders. However, this is changing with time and autonomous adversaries are starting to appear in the cyber domain. The aim of this survey paper is to provide an overview of autonomous adversaries in cyber domain, furthermore ethical problems and legal issues related with the development and the usage of autonomous adversaries in cyber domain will be discussed.