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Abstract
Hardening cyber physical assets is both crucial and labor-intensive.
Recently, Machine Learning (ML) in general and Reinforcement Learning RL) more
specifically has shown great promise to automate tasks that otherwise would
require significant human insight/intelligence. The development of autonomous
RL agents requires a suitable training environment that allows us to quickly
evaluate various alternatives, in particular how to arrange training scenarios
that pit attackers and defenders against each other. CyberBattleSim is a
training environment that supports the training of red agents, i.e., attackers.
We added the capability to train blue agents, i.e., defenders. The paper
describes our changes and reports on the results we obtained when training blue
agents, either in isolation or jointly with red agents. Our results show that
training a blue agent does lead to stronger defenses against attacks. In
particular, training a blue agent jointly with a red agent increases the blue
agent's capability to thwart sophisticated red agents.