Intelligent Cyber Adversaries Tool Suites (ICATS)

Dignitas’ overall objective for Phase II is to enhance Cyber training capabilities by developing the Intelligent Cyber Adversaries Tool Suite (ICATS), a capable and flexible intelligent cyber adversary as a training tool for a target system such as OneSAF while looking forward to plans for next generation training system. ICATS provides automated cyber adversaries that conduct OPFOR defensive and offensive cyber actions to support cyber training. Throughout our Phase II work, we will coordinate with stakeholders to assure our research is relevant to cyber training needs and future system architecture trends. In addition, Dignitas will keep the practical state of legacy systems in mind to ensure our research efforts can be transitioned successfully given complex schedules and evolving baselines. Our approach is to elicit use cases and capabilities that are needed by OneSAF to conduct cyber training from a variety of OneSAF clients. From these we identify promising threads that will be implemented under Phase II.