{"id":40396,"date":"2021-04-09T11:06:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-09T11:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cyberbattlesim-microsofts-open-source-holodeck-in-which-autonomous-attackers-defenders-battle-it-out\/"},"modified":"2021-04-09T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-09T11:06:11","slug":"cyberbattlesim-microsofts-open-source-holodeck-in-which-autonomous-attackers-defenders-battle-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/cyberbattlesim-microsofts-open-source-holodeck-in-which-autonomous-attackers-defenders-battle-it-out\/","title":{"rendered":"CyberBattleSim: Microsoft&#8217;s open-source Holodeck in which autonomous attackers, defenders battle it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has open-sourced software that pits machine-learning-powered network intruders against automated defenders inside virtual networks.<\/p>\n<p>The tech, dubbed CyberBattleSim by its creators at the Microsoft 365 Defender research team, is a Python-based OpenAI Gym affair, and sets up pretend networks loaded with vulnerabilities and other weaknesses. 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And yes, there is a noseAndMouthCovered attribute<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.com\/2021\/03\/09\/acs_mask_detection\/\"><span>READ MORE<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"mid\" data-raptor=\"eagle\" data-xsm=\",button,mpu_plusplus,\" data-sm=\",button,mpu_plusplus,\" data-md=\",button,mpu_plusplus,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YHJyMS7jJlR2U4SEHOvPFwAAAEc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=3&amp;c=33YHJyMS7jJlR2U4SEHOvPFwAAAEc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D3%26raptor%3Deagle%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>&#8220;CyberBattleSim provides a way to build a highly abstract simulation of complexity of computer systems, making it possible to frame cybersecurity challenges in the context of reinforcement learning,&#8221; the team said in a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/security\/blog\/2021\/04\/08\/gamifying-machine-learning-for-stronger-security-and-ai-models\/\">blog post<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;By sharing this research toolkit broadly, we encourage the community to build on our work and investigate how cyber-agents interact and evolve in simulated environments, and research how high-level abstractions of cyber security concepts help us understand how cyber-agents would behave in actual enterprise networks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Over the past year, Microsoft has been running the system to model attacks, and now wants to get more feedback.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With CyberBattleSim, we are just scratching the surface of what we believe is a huge potential for applying reinforcement learning to security,&#8221; the team said. &#8220;We invite researchers and data scientists to build on our experimentation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"adun\" data-pos=\"top\" data-raptor=\"falcon\" data-xsm=\",button,dbutton,mpu_plus,dmpu,\" data-sm=\",button,dbutton,mpu_plus,dmpu,\" data-md=\",button,dbutton,mpu_plus,dmpu,\"> <noscript> <a href=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/jump?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YHJyMS7jJlR2U4SEHOvPFwAAAEc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D4%26raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ad?co=1&amp;iu=\/6978\/reg_security\/front&amp;sz=300x50%7C300x100%7C300x250%7C300x251%7C300x252%7C300x600%7C300x601&amp;tile=4&amp;c=44YHJyMS7jJlR2U4SEHOvPFwAAAEc&amp;t=ct%3Dns%26unitnum%3D426raptor%3Dfalcon%26pos%3Dmid%26test%3D0\" alt> <\/a> <\/noscript> <\/div>\n<p>Redmond says the model should be run on Linux \u2013 they use Ubuntu \u2013 and the code is <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/microsoft\/CyberBattleSim\">here on GitHub<\/a>. 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