The US government is building an AI sandbox to tackle cybercrime

Top US security agencies are developing a virtual environment that uses machine learning in an effort to gain insight on cyberthreats and share findings with both public and private organizations.  A joint effort between the Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) – housed within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) – and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an AI sandbox will be designed for researchers to collaborate and test analytical approaches and techniques in combating cyber threats.  CISA’s Advanced Analytics Platform for Machine Learning (CAP-M) will be used in both on-premise and in multi-cloud scenarios for this purpose.

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