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  1. Ask the Expert: LLM-Guided Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Cyber Defense

    Oct 7, 2026Fernando Martinez, Abhishek Satyam, Tao Li +3Autonomous Cyber DefenseLLM-Guided RL

    Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Fordham University, New York, USA · Department of Systems Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA

  2. From Network Intrusion Detection to Blockchain-Backed Endpoint Detection and Response: Mapping the Landscape of Decentralized Detection-and-Response Architectures

    Oct 1, 2026Yahya Shahsavari, Sara Rouhani, Kaiwen ZhangAutonomous Cyber DefenseIoT Intrusion Detection

    Dept. of Software and IT Engineering ´Ecole de technologie sup´erieure ( ´ETS) Montr´eal, Qu´ebec, Canada · Dept. of Computer Science University of Calgary Calgary, Alberta, Canada

  3. Towards Hierarchical Cyber Defense with Large Language Models: From Planning to Execution

    Sep 30, 2026Harshith Doppalapudi, Nathaniel D. Bastian, Ankit ShahAutonomous Cyber DefenseLanguage Model-Based Control

    Indiana University Bloomington, IN, USA · Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD, USA

  4. Hard Stop: Kernel-Level Preemption and Containment for Rogue Agentic Execution

    Sep 24, 2026José Luis PinoAutonomous Cyber DefenseAI Agent Security

    Independent Researcher Westlake Village, CA, USA

  5. Autonomy in Check: Governor-Mediated Adaptive Security at the Edge

    Sep 16, 2026Ijaz Ahmad, Ijaz Ahmad, Flavio Esposito +1Autonomous Cyber DefenseAI Agent Security

    Centre for Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland · VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Espoo, Finland · Department of Computer Science, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA

  6. RobResilience: Implementing and Evaluating a Resilience Framework for Cyber-Physical Embodied Systems

    Sep 15, 2026Gysella Imrell, Emanuele Miotto, Mahya Mohammadi Kashani +2Cyber-Physical SystemsAutonomous Cyber Defense

    Örebro University Örebro, Sweden · University of Padua Padua, Italy

  7. Learning Intrusion Response Strategies for OT Systems

    Sep 9, 2026Duc Huy Le, Rolf StadlerAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    Dept. of Network and Systems Engineering KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden

  8. Machine Learning-Based Cyber Defense for Cloud Infrastructure: An Adaptive Deep Q-Network Architecture for Intelligent Intrusion Detection and Automated Threat Mitigation

    Aug 12, 2026Md Yassir Mottalib, Md Yousuf, Eklachur Rahman Bhuiyan +5Autonomous Cyber DefenseDeep Q-Learning

    Master of Science in Information System Technology, Wilmington University, USA · Master's of Science in Data Analytics, College of Sciences and Technology, University of Houston- Downtown, USA · Master of Science in Information Technology, Washington University of Science and Technology, USA +4

  9. STAIR: Effective Incident Response Using an End-to-End Agentic Planning Framework

    Aug 10, 2026Hanlin Jiang, Jionghao Huang, Shaofei Li +6Autonomous Cyber DefenseLLM Agent Orchestration

    Key Laboratory of High Confidence Software Technologies, Peking University, Ministry of Education · Southeast University · Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd.

  10. Trident : How to Break Deep Reinforcement Learning Cyber Defenses (Agentic)

    Aug 5, 2026Ryozo Masukawa, Ian Bryant, Armita Kazeminajafabadi +6Autonomous Cyber DefenseLLM Red Teaming

    University of California, Irvine · Northeastern University · Johns Hopkins University

  11. Distilling Knowledge from Large Language Models into Lightweight Reinforcement Learning Agents for Autonomous Cyber Operations

    Jul 30, 2026Konur Tholl, François Rivest, Mariam El Mezouar +2Autonomous Cyber DefenseLLM-Guided RL

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada · Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, Kingston, Canada · Defence Research and Development Canada, Ottawa, Canada +1

  12. AgentSnare: Learning to Delay, Divert, and Defuse Autonomous Penetration Agents

    Jul 29, 2026Ruoyu Wang, Heng Zhao, Renjie Wu +4Autonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University · 3Hainan University · 4Anhui University +1

  13. Agentic Cloud Decoys: A Deception-Driven Framework for Autonomous Intrusion Investigation

    Jul 27, 2026Mohan Manivannan, Dalal AlharthiAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    College of Information Science University of Arizona Tucson, AZ, USA

  14. Practical Graph Optimisation and AI-Driven Models for Active Directory Security Hardening

    Jul 24, 2026Huy Q. NgoAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    School of Computer and Mathematical Sciences, The University of Adelaide

  15. Closing the Loop: An Access-Control Architecture for Automated, Anomaly-Driven Network Revocation in IoT Deployments

    Jul 13, 2026Muhammet Emir Korkmaz, Kemal Bicakci, Yusuf UzunayAutonomous Cyber DefenseIoT Intrusion Detection

    Securify Information Technology and Security Training Consulting Inc., 06378, Ankara, TÜRK˙IYE · Informatics Institute, Istanbul Technical University, Ayazaga Campus, 34467, Maslak, Istanbul, TÜRK˙IYE

  16. COHORT: Collaborative Orchestration for Hardening via Offensive Replay on Emulated Topologies

    Jun 29, 2026Chen Frydman, Aviram Zilberman, Rubin Krief +6Autonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    Ben-Gurion University of The Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel · Jerusalem College of Technology, Jerusalem, Israel · Fujitsu

  17. LLM agents security duality: a comprehensive survey of self-security and empowered cybersecurity

    Jun 26, 2026Yiwei Xu, Yong Zhuang, Xuanming Liu +6Autonomous Cyber DefenseLLM Agent Security

    School of Cyber Science and Engineering, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. · Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, USA.

  18. Privacy-Preserving Federated Temporal Graph Learning with Digital Twin--Guided Adaptive Deception for Cyber-Resilient IoMT

    Jun 19, 2026Syed Zeeshan Haider, Anwar Shah, Muneeb Arif +2Federated RLAutonomous Cyber Defense

    FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

  19. Federated Temporal Attention Intelligence for Cyber-Resilient IoMT: Lightweight Digital Twins and PPO-Driven Honeypot Deception

    Jun 19, 2026Syed Zeeshan Haider, Anwar Shah, Muneeb Arif +2Federated RLAutonomous Cyber Defense

    FAST National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan

  20. RogueRover: Autonomous Rogue Device Localization for Incident Response

    Jun 19, 2026Priyanka Prakash Surve, Asaf Shabtai, Yuval EloviciAutonomous Cyber DefenseWireless Localization

    Ben Gurion University of the Negev

  21. Learning Red Agent Policy from Observations for Neurosymbolic Autonomous Cyber Agents

    Jun 16, 2026Ankita Samaddar, Sandeep Neema, Daniel Balasubramanian +1Opponent ModelingAutonomous Cyber Defense

    Departmaent of Computer Science Vanderbilt University Nashville, TN

  22. Agentra: A Supervisable Multi-Agent Framework for Enterprise Intrusion Response

    Jun 16, 2026Raj Patel, Shaswata Mitra, Michele Guida +3Autonomous Cyber DefenseAI Agent Safety

    The University of Alabama, Alabama, USA · Roma Tre University, Rome, Italy

  23. Graph neural networks at war: integrating cybersecurity and drone intelligence in the Israeli-Iranian conflict

    Jun 15, 2026Sozan Sulaiman Maghdid, Tarik Ahmed Rashid, Shavan AskarCyber-Physical SystemsAutonomous Cyber Defense

    Department of Information Technology, Khabat Technical Institute; Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq · Computer Science and Engineering Department; AIIC, University of Kurdistan Hewler, Erbil, Iraq · Department of Information Systems Engineering, Technical College of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Erbil Polytechnic University, Erbil, Iraq

  24. Safety-Contract Graph Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Network Security Response

    Jun 11, 2026Jose Luis Lima de Jesus SilvaAutonomous Cyber DefenseRisk-Sensitive RL

    Oxaala Tecnologias, Rua Dinah Silveira de Queirós, 06, Quinta do Candeal, Horto Florestal, Salvador, 40296-160, Bahia, Brazil · Universidade Federal da Bahia, Instituto de Geociências, Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, Salvador, Bahia, 40170-115, Brazil

  25. Shielded Analysis: Certification and Characterization of Defensibility in Systems under Adversarial Interaction

    Jun 11, 2026Achraf Hsain, Sultan AlmuhammadiAutonomous Cyber DefenseAdversarial Robustness

    Information and Computer Science Department King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

  26. An AI Security Agent for University ACMIS: Multi-Vector Threat Detection and Automated Response

    Jun 6, 2026Joseph Walusimbi, Joshua Benjamin SsentongoAutonomous Cyber DefenseNetwork Intrusion Detection

    Department of Electronics and Computer Engineering, Soroti University, Soroti, Uganda

  27. AI-Native Closed-Loop Security for 6G-Enabled Cyber-Physical Systems: From Edge Detection to Network-Wide Mitigation

    Jun 6, 2026Bilal Hussain, Muhammad Bilal, Tan Li +6Cyber-Physical Systems6G Networks

    Division of Science, Engineering, and Health Studies, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR, China · School of Computing and Communications, Lancaster University, United Kingdom · Department of Computer Science, The Hang Seng University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China +4

  28. Closing the Sim-to-Real Gap: An Evaluation Framework for Autonomous Cyber Defense Configuration of Commercial EDR

    Jun 6, 2026Kerri Prinos, Lilianne BrushAutonomous Cyber DefenseSim-to-Real Transfer

    Horizon3.ai San Francisco, CA, USA

  29. TinyML-Driven Cybersecurity for Autonomous Spacecraft: Latency-Accuracy Analysis for SPARTA RF and Cyber Threat Detection

    Jun 4, 2026Van Le, Trevor Tran, Tan LeAutonomous Cyber DefenseCybersecurity

    Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA · Hampton University, Hampton, VA 23669, USA

  30. Hybrid CNN-LSTM Framework for Intelligent Cyber Attack Detection and Prevention in U.S. Critical Digital Infrastructure: A Comparative Machine Learning Evaluation on CSE-CIC-IDS2018

    Jun 4, 2026Md. Iqbal Hossan, Md. Serajul Kabir Chowdhury Rubel, Md. Arifur Rahman +1Autonomous Cyber DefenseNetwork Intrusion Detection

    Department of Computer Science, Maharishi International University, Fairfield, Iowa, USA. · Department of Information Studies, Trine University, Angola, Indiana, USA. · Department of Business Information Systems, Central Michigan University, Mount Pleasant, Michigan, USA.