Federal funding agencies and industry entities are seeking innovative approaches to address the ever-growing cybersecurity crisis. Increasingly, numerous cybersecurity thought leaders are indicating that Artificial Intelligence (AI)-enabled analytics can help tackle key cybersecurity tasks and deploy defenses. This half-day workshop, co-located with ACM KDD, sought to attain significant research contributions to various aspects of AI-enabled analytics for cybersecurity applications and deployable defense solutions from academics and practitioners. This workshop was a joint workshop of the 2021 AI-enabled Cybersecurity Analytics and 2021 International Workshop on Deployable Machine Learning for Security Defense. As such, we developed an interdisciplinary Program Committee with significant experience in various aspects of AI, cybersecurity, and/or deployable defense. 
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                            Minitrack Introduction: Cybersecurity in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, AI for Cybersecurity, and Cybersecurity for AI
                        
                    
    
            Cybersecurity and Artificial Intelligence (AI) are key domains whose intersection gives great promises and poses significant threats. Indeed, the National Academy of Science (NAS), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and othßer respected entities have noted the significant role that AI can play in cybersecurity, and the importance of ensuring the security of AI-enabled algorithms and systems. This minitrack focuses on AI and Cybersecurity that works in broader domains, collaborative inter-organizational realms, shared collaborative domains, or with collaborative technologies. The papers in this minitrack have the potential to offer interesting and impactful solutions to emerging areas, including unmanned aerial vehicles and open source software security. 
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                            - Award ID(s):
- 2319325
- PAR ID:
- 10528911
- Publisher / Repository:
- Proceedings of the 57th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 978-0-9981331-7-1
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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