Security News > 2023 > January > Homeland Security, CISA builds AI-based cybersecurity analytics sandbox

Two of the US government's leading security agencies are building a machine learning-based analytics environment to defend against rapidly evolving threats and create more resilient infrastructures for both government entities and private organizations.

The Department of Homeland Security - in particular its Science and Technology Directorate research arm - and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency picture a multicloud collaborative sandbox that will become a training ground for government boffins to test analytic methods and technologies that rely heavily on artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques.

The CISA Advanced Analytics Platform for Machine Learning - previously known as CyLab - will drive problem solving around cybersecurity that encompasses both on-premises and cloud environments, according to the agencies.

"Fully realized, CAP-M will feature a multi-cloud environment and multiple data structures, a logical data warehouse to facilitate access across CISA data sets, and a production-like environment to enable realistic testing of vendor solutions," DHS and CISA wrote in a one-page description of the project.

"Building a lab environment to build analytics skills is critical to our foundational talent in public and private national security," Knode told The Register.

Tom Kellermann, senior vice president of cyber strategy at Contrast Security, told The Register that this is a "Critical project to improve information sharing on TTPs and enhance situational awareness across American cyberspace. However, ensuring the security of this ecosystem will be of paramount importance given the surge in integrity attacks and island hopping." .

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